Bertrand Meyer Quotes
I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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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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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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You can do one of two things: You can humble yourself or life will humble you. I think it's a lot easier to find a way to humble yourself.
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Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.
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I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.
