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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• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• 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

• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Try

• 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

• I'm never gonna get it, but I always wanted a tattoo that says: 'This is my tattoo.'

  

  Dominique Marquis Cole
  • Tattoo

• To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.

  

  Confucius
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing
  • Meaning

• I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.

  

  Flume
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Kind

• Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Best

• Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Fear

• 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