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!
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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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.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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American myths have never been colorless.
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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.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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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.
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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.
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I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
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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.
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We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
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It started out as a light romance, but he became demanding and possessive.
Nastassja Kinski -
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.
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Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
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With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.
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Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.
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I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.
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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.
