Konrad Lorenz Quotes
Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it.
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The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .
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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
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Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God-she has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. She is the channel of the eternal purpose of Heaven.
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Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.
