E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I was not an easy kid.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
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It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.
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The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.
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As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
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If no one saw them, no one could help them. And maybe the world needed to see what was really happening here.
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You are very familiar with western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple - sometimes naive. Understand, or not?
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There is no doing in the world without being first.
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Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.
