Leo Szilard Quotes
In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I would like to be a polyglot.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.
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I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.
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In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
