Martin Rees Quotes
To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
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I had a spectacular four years as OpenTable CEO and remain an active executive chairman. I think, for me, some of the interesting observations there are, you know, global is important, mobile is extremely important. And then, network businesses are very attractive.
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All I'm saying is that, you know, whether we're worth a billion, whether we're worth a million, whether we're worth $1,000, it's what's in your heart. You know, $100 a month from somebody or $50 a year for people who may be in a less economic bracket, that's as important to the Lord.
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No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
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To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.
