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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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?" "Yes. Sorry," he whispered. "I'm just having an attack of limericks." Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. "Shhh," she said, with feeling.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.
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In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
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I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.
