Paul Davies Quotes
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.
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The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
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The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
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Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.
