Jeremy Clarkson Quotes
The Falcon was forever going wrong. Time and again Han and his rebel cohorts would have to bang on the dashboard with their fists to get some wayward system working. And this too helped give the ship a flawed, almost human quality. This is something I look for in all machines...
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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I get homesick.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians
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I think police officers are modern day heroes. I think they protect us.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!
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Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.
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The Falcon was forever going wrong. Time and again Han and his rebel cohorts would have to bang on the dashboard with their fists to get some wayward system working. And this too helped give the ship a flawed, almost human quality. This is something I look for in all machines...
