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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It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.
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Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.
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If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel.
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Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
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You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
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Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.
