E. O. Wilson Quotes
To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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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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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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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.
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My favourite thing to wear is a saree.
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We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.
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To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.
