E. O. Wilson Quotes
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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You know, if they can do this to me they can do this to anybody, and they have been doing this for over sixty years . . . . it’s a very strange world.
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I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still solve your own problems. It was eight years from when I started having the fantasy that I was going to create such a detective to when I actually sat down and came up with V. I. Warshawski. It was a long, slow journey to come to a writing voice and do that character.
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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
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I've been things and seen places.
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Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
