Paul Davies Quotes
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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Vitia erunt donec homines
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.
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Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?
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Getting crazy on the Waltzers, but it's the life that I choose.Sing about the sixblade, sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo.And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam,And I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … and I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
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Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
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The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
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My concern 99% is about the storytelling, the emotion and all this. I never think about the format of anything until way far in the process and when we arrive to the fabrication of the thing then we start to say, "Okay right, what is the best thing we can do." I choose the car before to choose the color.
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They've been through three scripts, 14 rewrites.
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Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
