Quotes with get-together

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  • Burton Richter While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Burton Richter While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bob Dylan While one who sings with his tongue on fire
    Gargles in the rat race choir
    Bent out of shape from society's pliers
    Cares not to come up any higher
    But rather get you down in the hole
    That he's in
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bill Condon While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • A. C. Swinburne While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Bob Menendez While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Scott While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Washington Irving Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No, no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Carl Sandburg Who put up that cage? Who hung it up with bars, doors? Why do those on the inside want to get out? Why do those outside want to get in? What is this crying inside and out all the time? What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Billy Beane Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Claudette Colbert Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
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  • Bill Hicks Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
    Rant in E-Minor
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Carrie Snow Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
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  • Dorothy Parker Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Bubba Watson Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Doug Larson Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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