Brian Cox Quotes
I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.
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And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I know for myself how the fruits of the gospel of Jesus Christ can transform lives from the ordinary and dreary to the extraordinary and sublime.
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Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.
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I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.
