Paul Davies Quotes
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?
Quotes to Explore
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.
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To farm is to be placed absolutely.
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I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.
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I've always loved the underdog characters.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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Playing around with other people's husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl.
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There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?
