Joseph Rotblat Quotes

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

Joseph Rotblat

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: November 4, 1908 - August 31, 2005

Topics

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I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.

Joan Caulfield

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I was the sixteen-year-old driving everyone to bingo and shopping. It was quite a responsibility. It made me the man in charge of a lot of things.

John Candy

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I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.

Troy Polamalu

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One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.

Roone Arledge

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I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.

Ruby Dee

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The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.

Joschka Fischer

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If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

Denzel Washington

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You're not going to talk to your vacuum cleaning robot: in fact, you may never see your vacuum cleaning robot because, ideally, you come home every day and your floors are freshly vacuumed.

Colin Angle

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I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

Cindy Gallop

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Look at 'Marienbad' honestly. What is it? It is just another talking radio show with pictures. Nobody acts. People stand around while the author talks about the woodwork.

William Wyler

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Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

Penelope Keith

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