Martin Rees Quotes
The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
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I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
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Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.
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Donald Trump is the grandson of German immigrants. Don't worry. The last time a German guy with crazy hair took over a country, everything turned out fine.
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My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
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In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.
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Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.
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The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.
