Eugenie Scott (Eugenie Carol Scott) Quotes
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I love to stay at home and write.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
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My sister discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album.
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Some liberals have a problem with me simply because I work at Fox, and nothing I do short of storming off the set in a rage will get them to respect that I work there.
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For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel.
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I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
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Nas is such a touchstone in my world.
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There is a tremendous amount of pressure when you are a world No. 1 with everyone behind you trying to knock you down. But I always believe you should be enjoying the pressure at the top. It is a case of being able to relax and keep playing the game that got you there in the first place.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.
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My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
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Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.
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In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.
