Aubrey de Grey Quotes

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

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• I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Audience

• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Understanding
  • Learn
  • Compassion

• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Why
  • You

• This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Experience
  • True
  • Giving

• I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Style
  • Wedding
  • Pictures

• When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

  

  Callum Blue
  • People
  • Red
  • Hell

• I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Child
  • Very
  • Concerts

• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Back

• When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Dream

• And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Moving
  • Legacy
  • Saying

• I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Family
  • Always
  • Priority

• In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

  

  H. C. Bailey
  • Believe
  • You
  • Miracles

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Done
  • Future

• I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Want
  • Film
  • Theatre

• I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Acting

• America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Better
  • Well

• I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Believe
  • Security
  • Legal

• Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

  

  George Washington
  • God
  • United States
  • Protection

• I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Done

• The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

  

  Aubrey de Grey