Brian Cox Quotes
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.
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I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
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There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
