Martin Rees Quotes
No one can say which approach is the right one - so no one can say how close we are to a solution.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I think Kareena Kapoor is gorgeous. She is effortless. I have never seen her go overboard with her make-up or the way she dresses. Even off-screen or when travelling, she looks gorgeous.
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
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I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
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We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.
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I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.
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Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.
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A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
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You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.
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There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.
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No one can say which approach is the right one - so no one can say how close we are to a solution.
