E. O. Wilson Quotes
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.
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Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.
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The patient must minister to himself
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I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
