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

• 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

• Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants.

  

  Corneille Ewango
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Best
  • Spirit

• Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Different
  • Free

• I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • America
  • Beginning

• 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