Adam Sedgwick Quotes

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

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• Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Women
  • Problem
  • Inequality

• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • High
  • Today
  • Values

• Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Food
  • Practice
  • Clear

• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Want
  • You

• I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Body

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Business
  • Books
  • Suppressing

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • House

• There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Driving

• Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Know
  • Sweet
  • Argument

• If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

  

  Larry David
  • She
  • Know
  • Woman

• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Sick
  • Laugh

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Son
  • Speak
  • Walk

• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Regardless
  • Legislation

• Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.

  

  Prince
  • Life

• Thor is a god who's lived in Asgard most all his life, but I think he still has a sense of awe and wonder about the place. I want us, as readers, to have that same sense of awe whenever we see, finally see, the golden spires of Realm Eternal.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Life
  • God
  • Wonder

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Single
  • Fall
  • Rest

• A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison
  • Guy
  • Brain
  • Picture

• A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Present
  • Cold