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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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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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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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
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I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
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...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.
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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.
