Matt Ridley Quotes
Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster towards a finishing line that is merely the start of the next race.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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My hunger is always there.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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I love the spy genre.
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But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.
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I like to build houses.
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By definition, conservatives struggle with change.
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Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
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Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster towards a finishing line that is merely the start of the next race.
