E. O. Wilson Quotes
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
Nancy Allen
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
Kate Morton
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
Eartha Kitt
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We cannot all afford a farm in Cuba or a suite at the George V in newly liberated Paris, and more often than not must strive to forge our clean, well-lighted sentences at a folding table wedged between the baby's cot and the dining table.
John Banville
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
Kapil Sibal
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The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.
Jim Clyburn
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You can't ever force anything, and you have to deal with what comes to you as it comes.
Luke Hemsworth
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My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.
Scott Glenn
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson