Ernst Mayr Quotes
Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I don't like attacking.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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I don't believe in murder.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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It's so hard not to smile.
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I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.
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I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
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The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.
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I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
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Looking at the universe as a whole; cosmology, the birth, life and death of the whole universe, we used to have a nice simple model. Then we had to add things like dark energy, and our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier.
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I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.
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Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
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Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.
