E. O. Wilson Quotes
Because it is... far slower than Lamarckian evolution, biological evolution is always quickly outrun by cultural change.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
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Women are sacred.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.
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God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.
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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
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I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.
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If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.
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My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
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If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.
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I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.
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Because it is... far slower than Lamarckian evolution, biological evolution is always quickly outrun by cultural change.
