E. O. Wilson Quotes
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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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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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
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I've always wanted to work with my friend Al Pacino.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
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It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the script, I thought it was going to be a political movie, and I thought we might even have a hassle. But the director simplified it to brutality and bad taste.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
