E. O. Wilson Quotes
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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I am not a fan of books.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.
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I did most of my schooling in Miami.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
