Martin Rees Quotes

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

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• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • American
  • Internet

• Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

  

  Randy Falco
  • People
  • Decisions
  • Watch

• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Really
  • Hurts
  • Says

• I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Want
  • Fear

• Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.

  

  Bob Fosse
  • Life
  • Live
  • Serious

• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Life
  • Music
  • Science

• I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Great
  • Art

• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Believe
  • America

• Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

  

  Paul Cezanne
  • Heart
  • Art

• Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

  

  Martin Rees
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Science