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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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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There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
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The Olympics must be my curse or something.
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Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Primum est igitur ut apud nos valeant ea quae valere apud iudicem volumus, adficiamurque antequam adficere conemur.
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I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
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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.
