Martin Rees Quotes

The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.

Martin Rees

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I'm an American citizen. I pay my taxes. I want my equal rights. But this is my country, and consequently, I don't want to open up for ISIS or for anybody that will take away what we've already gained.

Jim Brown

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Tanzanians are some of the friendliest you'll ever meet, insisting on a welcoming smile and wave as they pass you on the streets, exclaiming 'Jambo!'

Jodi Balfour

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You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

John Lewis

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If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

Robert Rodriguez

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I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

Sid Vicious

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The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

Michelangelo

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That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'

Michael Moss

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When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

Liz Goldwyn

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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

Dean Norris

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As the insurgency in Iraq started to grow, we realized this is a connected network of individual actors that can move at light speed.

Chris Fussell

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