Nigel Rees Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
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You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.
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Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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My eyebrows could do with a trim.
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I've tried to convince members of my party that we should not allow the hair on the backs of our necks to bristle every time somebody mentions renewable energy.
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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.
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If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.
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Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.
