Martin Rees Quotes
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life. (p. 33)
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Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
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I think 'Red Band Society' is unique because not only is it focusing on a pediatric ward, but it's from the view from the patient, not from the view of the doctors. So we're getting to see a whole other side of hospitals and medical series life that we haven't been able to see before.
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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
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An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.
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Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
