Rick Tumlinson Quotes
It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of the great psychological shifts in human history. From out there, we can both appreciate and begin to solve the problems of our world in ways unavailable to us otherwise.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
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'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
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Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.
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Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
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It's nice to have an elephant in the room. There's nothing more helpful than something everybody's thinking about.
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The wisest fool in Christendom.
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I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.
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It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of the great psychological shifts in human history. From out there, we can both appreciate and begin to solve the problems of our world in ways unavailable to us otherwise.
