E. O. Wilson Quotes
[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?E. O. Wilson
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
Vincent Cassel -
The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
Edith Pearlman -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
Camille Paglia -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco -
The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
Katee Sackhoff -
I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
Adam Clayton U2 -
People trash talk me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Patrice Motsepe
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
Walter Cronkite -
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones -
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
Laura Wade -
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
Dambisa Moyo -
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
Fiona Apple -
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
Nancy Werlin -
I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'
Vicki Lawrence -
I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.
Jessica Capshaw -
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
Joseph Heller -
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving -
[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?
E. O. Wilson