C.P. Snow Quotes

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

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• I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Travel
  • Thought

• I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
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• A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Important
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• People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • Years
  • Said

• I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Results
  • Corruption

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Time
  • End

• The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Up
  • Free

• I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Reading
  • Writer

• It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • High
  • Responsible

• There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Reading
  • Eyes
  • Football

• People say that. But I think we go in there, we know that it's supposed to be a hostile environment. We just say, 'Hey, let's go in there and do it. No one really expects us to do it, so let's prove people wrong.' We've done that throughout the year.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • People
  • Environment
  • Wrong

• I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

  

  Kyle Shewfelt
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Athlete

• I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Ignore

• The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

  

  C.P. Snow
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