Martin Rees Quotes
I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.
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In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.
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You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
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I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.
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Mitch Miller knew exactly what he wanted me to sing. He didn't want me to improvise at all.
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I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'
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My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.
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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
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I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.
