Martin Rees Quotes
If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
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Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like.
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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet.
