James Lovelock Quotes
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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War is over if you want it.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I think Warner Bros. are probably some of the best people in marketing films in the world.
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
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We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that.
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
