Murray Gell-Mann Quotes

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Murray Gell-Mann

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• Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • She
  • Mom

• Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Been
  • Average
  • Months

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • Students
  • Mercy

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Popular
  • Own
  • Most

• The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Him

• One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Life
  • Great
  • Want

• Lower taxes will stimulate your own personal economy by leaving more money in your pocket to do what you want - invest, save, spend, buy a bigger house, a nicer car, and give to charity. And lower taxes also lead to more money for the government to use on those things they've promised you. It's a win-win for everyone.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • House
  • Government

• Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Self

• I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Like
  • Now
  • Prince

• I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Speed

• The way you wear your hat,The way you sip your tea,The mem'ry of all that –No, no! They can't take that away from me!

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Tea

• I called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter.  A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Today
  • Challenge
  • Cancer

• Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break my heart, don't ring out.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • World
  • Heart
  • Lost

• I do not want to go back to God with less knowledge than when I was born. I want my footprints to make an impress on the field of reason. I have no desire to be a cat and walk so lightly that it never creates a disturbance. I want my footprints to be plainly seen by all...

  

  Andrew Taylor Still
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  

  Al Stewart
  • School
  • Law
  • Cool

• It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

  

  Keith Sweat
  • Up
  • Crazy

• When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Support

• Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Religion
  • Stress
  • Times

• I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • World
  • Music
  • Live

• Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

  

  Murray Gell-Mann
  • Education
  • Taken
  • Restaurants