Murray Gell-Mann Quotes

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.

Murray Gell-Mann

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TimeMeListeningThinkYouSharing

Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

Jennifer Granholm

LoseCountryWantManufacturing

People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It's all about being authentic.

Andre Carson

MirrorDaySchoolPeopleEndLook

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

John Witherspoon

SpeakYouRiseSaidSayNever

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

Robert Dale Owen

GreatResponsibilityForwardYouGo

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

ScienceScholarshipDifferenceFuzzy

As a child, I was taught that you can achieve, and you can do anything you want.

RJ Mitte

ChildYouAchieveWantAnything

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Roy Hattersley

MoralityMoreThanAllowExpediency

I've had friends who did pilots, and I'd say, 'What happened to that?' and they'd say, 'It didn't go,' and it literally goes into a void of nothingness because no one gets to see it. All that money and talent and time put into it.

Rosemarie DeWitt

TimeMoneyTalentFriendsGoSay

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

Luke Treadaway

CreativePeopleYouSayLondonFull

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Jose Saramago

AttitudeAlienRelationshipsOthers

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Dora Russell

ChildViolenceWillRightAdultHe

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

Brenda Blethyn

GoldenBeenJustFantasticEvenWon

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