E. O. Wilson Quotes
My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…’,'
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.
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My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
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I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.
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I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.
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My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…’,'
