E. O. Wilson Quotes
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
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Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
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I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.
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It behooves all of us to have everyone experience their deepest, most beautiful, most profound and powerful self, because those people are more apt to give their gift to everyone else rather than shudder in fear.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
