E. O. Wilson Quotes
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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In Ted's world, we want the death penalty to be imposed at the scene of the crime.
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Be kind to yourself.
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I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.
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Guys are bigger, stronger, just like in singles, serving bigger, returning better, and more athletic for sure. I think from my standpoint, just spending more time in the gym has enabled me to hang in there.
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Every time you think a thought it 'registers', and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out from your mind.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
