Matt Ridley Quotes
...compare mankind with other animals that share our highly social habits: with colonial birds, monkeys and dolphins. As we shall see, the lesson they teach is that we are designed for a system of monogamy plagued by adultery.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I don't die in anything!
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
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I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
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Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
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People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.
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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
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The one safe generalization one can make is that Weishaupt's intent to maintain secrecy has worked; no two students of Illuminology have ever agreed totally about what the 'inner secret' or purpose of the order actually was (or is …).
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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.
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I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
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...compare mankind with other animals that share our highly social habits: with colonial birds, monkeys and dolphins. As we shall see, the lesson they teach is that we are designed for a system of monogamy plagued by adultery.
