Mark Pagel Quotes

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

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• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Today
  • Fear
  • New

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Office
  • Medicine
  • Alchemy

• American myths have never been colorless.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Never
  • Been

• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Great
  • Struggle
  • Conflict

• I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Book
  • Stories
  • See

• The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Great
  • Saint
  • Claim

• I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Want
  • Like
  • Write

• I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Money
  • Manager
  • Borrowing

• I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Science
  • Know
  • Rare

• My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Forest
  • Heroes
  • Harris

• My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Factory' hosted by Jorgen Raymann. It was in 2006 in Holland. It was amazing. I had only been doing stand-up for four years, and I booked that gig through the Just For Laughs Montreal festival, and they flew me out and put me up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.

  

  Abraham Cowley

• It started out as a light romance, but he became demanding and possessive.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Light

• There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West; and those of the South, being involved in the course of the winds, will follow them to distant lands.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great

• I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Writing
  • Giving

• Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

  

  Plato
  • Sound
  • Dialogue
  • Discourse

• The light dims a little bit as you get older and new generations come along. But it's around the holidays when I am remembered the most. It is very special, and I get a kick out of it now as much as I did when I first started.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Light

• 'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right? I had a blast, and the film is a very, very well put together movie - from the director to the writing the cast.

  

  Cory Hardrict
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

  

  Mark Pagel