Martin Rees Quotes
Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.
Quotes to Explore
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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I am a sociologist, God help me.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.
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You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
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'Young men,' said Cæsar, 'hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.'
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Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.
