Jeffrey C. Hall Quotes
The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I am who I am.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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When in doubt, use brute force.
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The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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'Let the Bullets Fly' indeed attracted an audience, but how it did this is also a question for me.
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The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.
