Neil Turok Quotes
My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76
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I love the smell of clean laundry. Working in the garden and getting my hands dirty. Doing the dishes. These are the things that make me feel normal.
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I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.
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Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.
