David Bodanis Quotes
I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.
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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.
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A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
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Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.
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How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.
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We should care about each other.
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To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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I hate chapped lips.
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Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air pollution. A few hundred years earlier it would have been demons, still the best analogy I think, but not much help when it comes to a cure.
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It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.
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Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.
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I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.
