Carl Zimmer Quotes
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
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I just don't stop working.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.
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I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.
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My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
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Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.
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I don't really trust a sane person.
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And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
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We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can't help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.
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I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'
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I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.
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I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me.
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
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It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.
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I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.
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We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.
