Matt Ridley Quotes

...the males best at seduction tend to be the best at other things as well.

Matt Ridley

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Seriously
  • Liberal
  • Biased

• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Look

• Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Best
  • Need
  • Recognition

• Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Novel
  • Seduction
  • Seduced

• I've always done drama, but I suppose 'Tyrannosaur' was a bit of a watershed moment for me. It was like when Kathy Burke did 'Nil By Mouth' - suddenly, people were saying, 'Oh, she can do that, too.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Done
  • She

• I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Done
  • Singing

• I've always had a tomboy look.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Always
  • Look
  • Tomboy

• Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Control
  • Hands

• The discussion of any society risks seduction by what is transient and tumultuous.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Society
  • Seduction

• Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Sympathy
  • Gang

• I was about 7 and my family was eating at a restaurant when we saw my first Elvis impersonator by total accident.

  

  Drake Milligan
  • Family

• Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Trying
  • Universe
  • Sleep

• Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Sex
  • Seduction

• The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte

• Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Job
  • Innovation

• Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

  

  Louie Schwartzberg
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Fall

• When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

  

  Jan Berry
  • Light

• There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Justice
  • Times
  • Human Right

• My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • School
  • Why
  • Small

• I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Responsibility
  • Show
  • Use

• ...the males best at seduction tend to be the best at other things as well.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Seduction