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William Irwin Thompson Quotes

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

William Irwin Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: July 16, 1938

Topics

Change Time Language Place Evolution

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

Jessalyn Gilsig

Love Good Hero Story Think You

Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.

Jesse Ball

Lying Social Our Creatures

Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.

Jesse Ventura

Water Job Government Mom Help Mouth

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

John Badham

Power Walk Saying Story Logic Alive

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

Joel Grey

Work Never Always Classics Idea

Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.

Andrew J. Bernstein

Life Focus Thoughts Self Emotions

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

Mehmet Oz

Work Think You Sit Your Percent

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Anna Kendrick

Age New York Parents Me Cool Drive

I don't believe in diets. I don't believe any diet ever works.

Sinbad

Believe Diet Ever Any Diets Works

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

Sienna Miller

Skin Side Bite Fingernails

The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world.

Marvin Harris

World India Production Cattle Answer

I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.

Lorraine Adams

I Am Kind Write Begin Writer Plot