E. O. Wilson Quotes
To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
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There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It's to try to stay in the relationship. But if it doesn't work, you can't force those things.
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I will not take 'but' for an answer.
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I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
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Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
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Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.
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It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
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My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
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That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.
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Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.
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How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.