Martin Rees Quotes

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • America
  • Tomorrow
  • Stand

• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Believe
  • America

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • America
  • Think

• The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

  

  H. G. Wells
  • America
  • Achieve
  • Socialism

• In America, public opinion is the leader.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • America
  • Opinion
  • Leader

• I don't understand anything about America's culture.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Culture
  • Understand

• When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Good
  • Job
  • Community

• The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Time
  • America
  • Change

• If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Know
  • End

• Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Community

• There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • Political
  • Decisions

• Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • America
  • Changing

• I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • America
  • Kind

• I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • World
  • America

• In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.

  

  Jean Dujardin
  • America

• Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, 'Smile more,' or, 'Be stronger - remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.' This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Understanding

• When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Friends
  • Remember

• How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Monster

• One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

  

  Martin Rees
  • America
  • Community