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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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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It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.
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I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.
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I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.
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The truest poetry is the most feigning.
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It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.
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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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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.
