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.

Konrad Lorenz

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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.

  

  Jack Davenport
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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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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.

  

  Aaron Koblin
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• I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.

  

  Pat Burns
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• I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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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.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
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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.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• 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.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Saying

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
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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.'

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Remember
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• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
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• In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Moments
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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.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Good
  • True
  • Thought

• It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Romantic
  • Conversation

• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
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  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Fun
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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.

  

  J Mascis
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  • Everything

• There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.

  

  Matthew Goode
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Shoes

• Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Drama
  • Persons
  • Strongest

• When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.

  

  John Marston
  • People
  • Forget
  • Forgiven

• We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

  

  Konrad Lorenz
  • War
  • Evil
  • Religious