Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.
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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.
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That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
