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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What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost...perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well.
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Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.
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The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
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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.
