Brian Boyd Quotes
Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who think, Well, here's something that's not booming at the moment, let's slash it.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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I don't have many friends.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
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When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
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Competition, ... the best place in the world to trade electronically by 2002.
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It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
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Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.
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It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism.
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Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
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Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who think, Well, here's something that's not booming at the moment, let's slash it.
