Matt Ridley Quotes
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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I love getting facials. I've even started doing microdermabrasion to keep all the makeup and dirt out of my pores. And when I'm traveling, I'll always grab a moisturizing face mask.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
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I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.
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It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.
