E. O. Wilson Quotes
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.
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No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
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Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
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I've had a very long career of being conservative.
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A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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I think that there have been times, especially with writing songs, where you sit in a room with somebody, and they could be a very well-respected songwriter, but for whatever reason, the chemistry is just not right.
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Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
