Martin Rees Quotes
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I was invited to sing, first of all, my operatic debut in Berlin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which was West Berlin at the time.
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We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.
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I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.
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Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.
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They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
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It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know.
