Elliott Sober Quotes

Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form.

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• If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • God
  • Dead

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Guy

• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Help
  • Small
  • Law

• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Generations

• If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • World
  • Song
  • Hurt

• Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in high school... it was more of an extracurricular thing.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.

  

  Bjork
  • Walking

• One game that drives me crazy, is when a guy gives the girl they really like more attention, and then they feel like maybe they pressed too hard, so they back way off and start giving other women attention. I've never pulled this myself.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Game

• I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

  

  Charity Shea
  • Life
  • Important
  • Food

• I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Up
  • Power
  • Choices

• I'm not a make-up person, but I love wearable products that are easy to use, with fun packaging.

  

  Charlotte Ronson
  • Up
  • Fun

• I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Life
  • Song
  • Night

• You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

  

  Jenifer Lewis
  • Black
  • Goddess

• My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Work
  • Sleep

• War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • War
  • Romantic

• Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Band

• When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.

  

  Art Malik
  • Up
  • Food

• I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Attention
  • Environment

• Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • People
  • Home
  • Eyes

• Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Population
  • Wars
  • Provide

• Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Environment
  • Population
  • Selection