Aubrey de Grey Quotes

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

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• It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • God
  • Die
  • Problem

• I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Dad

• I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Long
  • Like
  • Saying

• I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

  

  Val Guest
  • Film
  • First
  • Angel

• With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That's what appeals to me about it. I want to have as much fun as possible.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Cars

• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

  

  O. Henry
  • True
  • Fate
  • Unknown

• I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Man
  • Professional

• I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Want
  • Know
  • Fall

• Morals are three-quarters manners.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• No more slave States; no slave Territories.

  

  Salmon P. Chase

• We the U.S. think nothing…of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

  

  Ralph Peters

• Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Music
  • Silence

• O bitter is it to abide In weariness alway: At dawn to sigh for eventide, At eventide for day. Thy noon hath fled: thy sun hath shone: The brightness of thy day is gone: What need to lag and linger on Till life be cold and gray?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Life
  • Sun
  • Cold

• Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, 'Oh yes, you're so right,' but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • People

• While performing, I can't wear anything that I'm not going to be able to dance in or heels that don't have ankle support.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Support
  • Dance

• Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.

  

  Leon Max
  • People

• I'm very wary of trust, you see.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Trust

• As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Value
  • Hands

• A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background, it's variety! I want to see some variety in an artist, I want to be entertained, I want some depth. Show me some different styles!

  

  Donny Osmond
  • People
  • Different

• Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

  

  David Zucker

• I've had someone, my assistant, type for me. I've done it that way for more than 50 years because I type with one finger, although quite rapidly.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Done

• We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

  

  Aubrey de Grey