Matt Ridley Quotes

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.

Matt Ridley

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No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

John Cusack

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The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

Andrei Platonov

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I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.'

Michael Cudlitz

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Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

Tony Visconti

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Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the financial interests are adversarial, that there's money versus people. A lot of Goldman Sachs people went into government, so at a time when there's a distrust of institutions, some of that reflects on us.

Lloyd Blankfein

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Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about 'happily ever after,' but there's so much more to it than that.

Dierks Bentley

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Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

Dax Shepard

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So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Bruce Boxleitner

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Even being part of a world like 'Black Panther,' that is gonna be something that's deeply commercial, it still is about a narrative of people who are unseen, unheard, and unrepresented, you know?

Winston Duke

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A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Thomas Szasz

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If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

Tim LaHaye

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