E. O. Wilson Quotes
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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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.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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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.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.
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It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.
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Everybody is someone else's instrument.
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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
