James G. Frazer Quotes
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
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I love science fiction.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
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I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'
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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
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Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.
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I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.
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My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
