Joseph Rotblat Quotes
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
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So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.
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Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
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Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney's private-equity business too ruthless with workers?
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.
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I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
