Martin Rees Quotes
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.
Quotes to Explore
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times.
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.
