Matt Ridley Quotes
It is sometimes hard even for biologists to remember that sex is merely a genetic joint venture.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."
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It is sometimes hard even for biologists to remember that sex is merely a genetic joint venture.
