Martin Rees Quotes
The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.
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I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.
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For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.
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Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.
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Short films don't go too far.
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The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
