Carl Zimmer Quotes
Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
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We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
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The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
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P. 27.
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I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.
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I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.
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I love looking at the old Bond films. Maybe it's purely out of reminiscence, the nostalgic things you think about. But there were some very good films made, and I think that the public has enjoyed them, too.
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To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.
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I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
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I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.
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The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.
