E. O. Wilson Quotes
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.E. O. Wilson
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
Kate Winslet -
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
Ed Koch -
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie -
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
Zygmunt Bauman -
Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
Kate Voegele
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust -
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
Ian Mckellen -
In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
Mac Thornberry -
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
Edmund Leach -
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
Baz Luhrmann -
Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
B. D. Wong
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley -
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian -
Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
Gabrielle Giffords -
In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
Fiona Apple -
About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
Finn Jones -
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
J. Tillman
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I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.
Maxine Peake -
I can’t understand it when people say they don’t like a particular color. . . . How on earth can you not like a color?
Dale Chihuly -
I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.
Lee Byung-hun -
Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
Halsey -
'Are you a religious man, Joe?'Flitch pulled a face. 'I leaves that sort of thing to women.'
Brian Aldiss -
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
E. O. Wilson