John Desmond Bernal Quotes
If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
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Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!
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Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.
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Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
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We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.
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If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?
