Martin Rees Quotes
Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
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'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.
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There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.
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I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
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Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.
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I believe that I will represent this sport in the best light possible. I won't mess it up. I won't get myself in any trouble.
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Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by 'engineers of the soul.'
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To be human is to be suspended between danger and opportunity. ...The challenge of life is to choose wisely, from the enormous number of possible dangers, what's worth worrying about. It is also about choosing, from all the opportunities... always in the face of incomplete knowledge of the consequences.
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I want you to know, that I am happy for you I wish nothing but the best for you both An older version of me, Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?
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Miami is always super, duper lit.
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I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.
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As far as police go, if officers are really that scared or timid on the streets, maybe they shouldn't be police officers. Their job is to protect and serve and they're supposed to be the bravest of the brave.
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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.
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Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
