Gregory Benford Quotes

We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.

Gregory Benford

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I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'

Jochen Zeitz

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My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.

Jesmyn Ward

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I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

John McCormack

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I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Toyo Ito

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When millions of law-abiding people achieve citizenship, our communities benefit, and the U.S. economy grows and strengthens.

Tony Cardenas

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I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

Michelle Yeoh

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I feel best in a ragged pair of red Honda Motorcycle pants. I have taken them to Machu Picchu, to the Knob Creek Machine Gun festival, and backstage to Cirque du Soleil - just the right touch to make you untouchable. No one quite dares to throw you out, because perhaps you are a world class motocross racer.

Jonathan Franklin

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There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

Dean Ambrose

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I was a good kid.

Bonnie Hunt

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Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date?

Pepe Eliaschev

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Everything is always feasible if you run a corporate finance exercise: you can always try to come out with a justification on how things could work. But the real issue is to say how do you translate that into practice.

Sergio Ermotti

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There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the dead rather than transporting patients. We made presentations to graduating students at various healthcare institutes, trying to debunk this myth.

Shaffi Mather

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