Martin Rees Quotes
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.
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Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.
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As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.
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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.
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I'm real connected with Australia, you heard? I gotta come up there, man.
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It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.
