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.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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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.
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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.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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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.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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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.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
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Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
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All jargon of the schools.
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What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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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.
