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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Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
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One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
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Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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.
