E. O. Wilson Quotes
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I would love to be a role model.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the cmbined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.
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Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.
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I've never ducked anyone. Bernard Hopkins has beaten people that nobody else wanted to fight - Winky Wright, Antonio Tarver. I knocked out Felix Trinidad easily, Oscar de la Hoya with a body shot, I had world title 20 defences.
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There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
