E. O. Wilson Quotes
I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I'm not a sun person.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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Sometimes people will approach me on the street and ask me very personal questions about my dating life. Fans talk to me like they know me, and it's like, 'You don't know me. You know my character, but you really don't know me.'
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
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I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.
