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

• 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

• 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

• I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

  

  Alan Ball
  • Culture

• The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Together
  • Beginning
  • River

• A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Kids
  • Digitally-enhanced version

• I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Singing

• I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

  

  Questlove
  • Great
  • Music
  • Believe

• Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Good
  • Learning

• 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