Konrad Lorenz Quotes
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care.
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When it comes right down to it, no, we're not religious at all.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
