Elliott Sober Quotes

"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former.

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• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Personality
  • Unbalanced

• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
  • Speak
  • Speech

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • You
  • Easy

• That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Judging
  • Surprise

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • History
  • Death

• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Black

• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Numbers
  • Manners
  • Morals

• If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Promise

• The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Why
  • Know
  • Problem

• A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Child
  • Slavery

• Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Real
  • Way
  • First

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Beautiful
  • Funny
  • Yourself

• Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Done
  • Day
  • Government

• If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Justice

• At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.

  

  Jam Master Jay
  • Up
  • Beginning

• I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.

  

  Alexei Mordashov
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

  

  Brad Thor
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Bitterness
  • Way Out

• The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • World
  • May
  • Law

• The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

  

  Chanakya
  • People
  • Small
  • Sleep

• "Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Evolution
  • Tiger
  • Biology