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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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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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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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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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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Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.
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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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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.
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The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
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I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.
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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.
