Martin Rees Quotes
Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to continue to seek out new energy sources.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I'm far from being a homosexual.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.
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The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.
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I'm certainly proud of the transformation of Playboy from a magazine to a multimedia corporation.
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As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
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Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to continue to seek out new energy sources.
