Dan Sperber Quotes
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.
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I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.
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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.
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Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.
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For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.
