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.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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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.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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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.
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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.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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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.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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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.
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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.
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I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.
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You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
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It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.
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We tend to intensely scout an area and then use our imaginations to make the best use of the geography.
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Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.
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Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.
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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.
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Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.
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I think any professional and successful woman might go through that because in this day and age where women are just as successful as men are, it’s kind of hard to separate being a woman first, a wife first and then handling your professional career.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.
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It's just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment.
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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.
