Elliott Sober Quotes
Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
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There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.
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I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'
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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.
