Murray Gell-Mann
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We poison the groundwater with our toxic pis... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the t... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Thats the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paint... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I cant talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. 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He's somebody I've known for a long time, and I think that's true of many of ... BRIAN E. FROSH I believe in doing what I am best at. N. T. RAMA RAO, JR. Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN ag... JAN EGELAND , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right. , QUOTED IN ASIAWEEK MAGAZINE Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. , IN _A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY_ I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens o... JOHN DARNIELLE I think that's a theory in economics that that is what happens, ... We think some of it is very cons... ELIZABETH BAKER ALBERT EINSTEIN ALBERT EINSTEIN We always tell our American colleagues that all Iran-Russia cooperation is in accordance with intern... ALEXANDER RUMYANTSEV So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is. 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I just feel bossy that... TIKA SUMPTER
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SALLY MANN I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi... SALLY MANN Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, bo... SALLY MANN I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead. SALLY MANN I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t... SALLY MANN I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination. SALLY MANN I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity. SALLY MANN At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ... SALLY MANN It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and... SALLY MANN If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one. SALLY MANN I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, an... SALLY MANN Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive. SALLY MANN I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packe... SALLY MANN To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. SALLY MANN Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable. SALLY MANN Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the ... SALLY MANN I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f... SALLY MANN I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about... SALLY MANN You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the abi... SALLY MANN When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living condit... SALLY MANN I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity... SALLY MANN When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a... SALLY MANN Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst... SALLY MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because o... MANFRED MANN The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a ... MANFRED MANN I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the coun... MANFRED MANN THOMAS MANN The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. HEINRICH MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input. BARRY MANN You have to be very brave in that first writing session. BARRY MANN I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s... BARRY MANN We've written something like 900 songs in all. BARRY MANN I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows. BARRY MANN I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. BARRY MANN The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinki... BARRY MANN I've written songs sober and I've written songs high. BARRY MANN Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themsel... BARRY MANN I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direc... BARRY MANN A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar ... BARRY MANN You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and... BARRY MANN I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear... BARRY MANN If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist. BARRY MANN If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something. BARRY MANN We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs. BARRY MANN I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive. BARRY MANN One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record pr... BARRY MANN I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing ... BARRY MANN It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative cro... BARRY MANN Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. BARRY MANN If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber toda... BARRY MANN We became the songs we wrote. BARRY MANN There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs ... BARRY MANN It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. BARRY MANN You're going to have more rejection than acceptance. BARRY MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen... LESLIE MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN THOMAS MANN I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue s... SALLY MANN THOMAS MANN GABRIEL MANN AIMEE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN THOMAS MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's re... HERBIE MANN For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I h... HERBIE MANN Demi... 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LESLIE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN GABRIEL MANN HORACE MANN THOMAS MANN Child actors don't have great track records. LESLIE MANN The biggest problem is getting to work. BARRY MANN Once I get into it, then I'm into it. BARRY MANN You can get stale writing with each other for a while. BARRY MANN I was very fortunate, though, to have a writing partner that truly is brilliant with words and at th... BARRY MANN I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being ... BARRY MANN We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade a... BARRY MANN It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input. BARRY MANN And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same ... BARRY MANN You're fools to try to be songwriters! BARRY MANN Being in her home state, she feels like she has something to prove. ALI MANN In the course of the game, those shots can be killers. ALI MANN The first half I thought we did some pretty good things trying to keep their main players under cont... ALI MANN Last year was more of an eye-opening experience. We were wide-eyed walking around Seattle. Now we kn... ALI MANN
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was th... 
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representativ... 
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole f... 
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. 
Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities t... 
I feel that I am a man of destiny.
[Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.] 
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... 
[On Anger]
It will be my first tournament back in Europe after the Ryder Cup and I think it will be very specia... 
I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can... 
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. 
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d... 
If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will dec... 
I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible. 
I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America. 
I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I t... 
I am not a shock jock pastry chef. I don't create desserts using strange ingredients just for th... 
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. 
A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon.... 
I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties. 
In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react t... 
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards... 
My colleagues and I feel that independents like ElfQuest are nothing but sheep in wolves' clothing."... 
I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need ... 
I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and u... 
I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I ... 
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to m... 
I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had... 
I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work - on eliciting pri... 
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on ... 
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d... 
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want... 
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particle... 
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties. 
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. 
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. 
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. 
More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and... 
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. 
The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ... 
We recorded the band pretty much live. 
The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from ... 
I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it. 
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm s... 
But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone say... 
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright childre... 
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond... 
Sports should always be fun.