C.P. Snow Quotes
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
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Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? Why don't you have any fun?' My fun is Sundays. Anybody can go to the club. You don't have to be good at going to the club to go to the club. You have to be good to be playing on Sundays, and to me, that's what's cool.
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Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not.
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Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
