E. O. Wilson Quotes
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I am healthy and happy.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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B is for bestseller.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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You had to have a great voice or talent as a musician before imaging or marketing plans came into play.
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We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.
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All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.
