John Desmond Bernal Quotes
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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We had a real good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out be-cause it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team. I look at the stats and see that they still shot 50 percent and they almost scored 100 points and that's not something we want to give up. That's something we've got to look at as negative even though we got a win and try to improve on that.
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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.
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At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.
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Civilization, it was once said, is a race between education and catastrophe - and we intend to win that race for education.
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The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
