Paul Davies Quotes
No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen many times right here on our home planet? And how do we know it didn't? The truth is, nobody has looked.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
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I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.
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It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.
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Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.
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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
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There is no off position on the genius switch.
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No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen many times right here on our home planet? And how do we know it didn't? The truth is, nobody has looked.
