Carl Zimmer Quotes

I wouldn't be a very good hunter without these glasses. I'm not a very good hunter with these glasses, but I'd be even worse without them, so that would put a crimp in how many kids I could have, so all of these medical advances have at least in some parts of the world blunted natural selection.

Carl Zimmer

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• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Attention
  • Your
  • Capture

• We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Challenge
  • Effort
  • Driving

• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

  

  Barry Mann
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Lyrics

• Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Gun
  • Just Because

• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • Common Sense

• People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Single

• I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • People
  • Taken
  • Beach

• Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

  

  Jeffrey Hunter
  • Time
  • Jesus

• There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Power
  • Barack

• I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Struggle

• I wouldn't be a very good hunter without these glasses. I'm not a very good hunter with these glasses, but I'd be even worse without them, so that would put a crimp in how many kids I could have, so all of these medical advances have at least in some parts of the world blunted natural selection.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • World
  • Kids
  • Medical