Martin Rees Quotes
If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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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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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.
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Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.
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The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
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Being pro-life doesn't save babies, acting pro-life does.
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If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.
