Murray Gell-Mann Quotes
Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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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.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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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.
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Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
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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.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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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.
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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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.
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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!
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Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.
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What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.
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People often talk about Hispanics. You know, I have more Hispanics come up to me telling me, 'Listen, I can't wait for your father to be president. He's gonna bring jobs back to the United States. He's gonna end the nonsense. He's gonna create good trade deals. He's gonna create better education. He's gonna create a better family structure.'
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Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.
