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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So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.
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I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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We are moving closer to a future where quantified lives will become the norm.
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A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.
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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.
