Phillip E. Johnson Quotes
This origins debate isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
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This origins debate isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.
