Michael Shermer Quotes

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

Michael Shermer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: September 8, 1954

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A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

Joan Van Ark

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The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

Jock Sturges

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We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

John Banville

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A man with God is always in the majority.

John Knox

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I don't really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through.

John Irving

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I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.

Matthew Lewis

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I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Mary McCarthy

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It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs on the guitar when I was a teenager. 'Smelly Cat' is very easy. It's only about three chords.

Michelle Dockery

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I'm pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while.

Jon Lester

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I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

Dito Montiel

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My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

Christina Applegate

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You train all year for the physical aspect of cycling, but you can't plan for what comes next. You're still the same person. External perceptions might change, but inside, you're the same.

Bradley Wiggins

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