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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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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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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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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I've watched 'Clueless' as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.
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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
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I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.
