E. O. Wilson Quotes
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
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Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.
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Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
