Anthony James Leggett Quotes

Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

Anthony James Leggett

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• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Scary

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Family
  • Love

• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Career
  • Very
  • Short

• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Human
  • Human being
  • Him

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Love
  • American

• I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Earth

• I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Girl

• Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I think a high grammar standard may be a losing fight on the Internet.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Fight
  • Internet
  • Maybe

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Political
  • Racism
  • Hypocrisy

• Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

  

  Anthony James Leggett
  • Years
  • Research
  • Anticipated