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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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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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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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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You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.
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What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
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The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.
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Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.
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I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.
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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
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Thro' many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
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Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
