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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The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?
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the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.
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Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'
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Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.
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We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
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Performance is one thing which has to be good because you're an actor.
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We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.
