Douglas Wood Quotes
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Education is so important.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
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Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
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I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.
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Being fit involves working on all aspects - your body, what you eat, and how you think. A sculpted body is not of much use if you're not there mentally. And similarly, if you're not eating well, it will affect your physical and mental set-up. After all, a six-pack might look good, but that's pretty much it!
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Vampires are super sexy.
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When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
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Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
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If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
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I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
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There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
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Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
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History is on the side of the regulators.
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Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
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I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm motivated by very small successes.
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Being faithful doesn’t mean you are fearless. It just means that your faith is greater than your fear.
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The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
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Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.
