Joseph Rotblat Quotes
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
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The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
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My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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People are going to keep making stuff. Things are going to be spin-offs.
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After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.
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I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.
