Matt Ridley Quotes
Such 'habituation´is just a property of the way brains work; our senses, and those of grackles, notice novelty and change, not steady states. The female preference did not evolve: it just is that way.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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Such 'habituation´is just a property of the way brains work; our senses, and those of grackles, notice novelty and change, not steady states. The female preference did not evolve: it just is that way.
