William Bateson Quotes
Though the problem of evolution is all unsolved and the old questions stand unanswered, there are those who have taken on themselves the responsibility of giving to the ignorant, as a gospel, in the name of Science, the rough guesses of yesterday that tomorrow should forget.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.
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There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
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There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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Do you think we’ll ever discover all the secrets of the universe?
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Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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My heart stutters—not why? or how?—those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?
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Though the problem of evolution is all unsolved and the old questions stand unanswered, there are those who have taken on themselves the responsibility of giving to the ignorant, as a gospel, in the name of Science, the rough guesses of yesterday that tomorrow should forget.
