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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Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn't sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast.
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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.
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Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
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According to government ethics rules ... it is permissible for a retired (Fed) governor to speak in public about the economy so long as he or she does not divulge confidential information. I have no indication that he has violated that rule.
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I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
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My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…’,'
