Richard Dawkins Quotes

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

Richard Dawkins

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I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

Joanna Newsom

WorkMusicI AmWorldFeelSomeone

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Jean-Paul Sartre

GenerosityEnjoyNothingThrough

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

Steve Lacy

NatureArtCollaborationThink

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.

Amanda Seyfried

WorkSingingOutGotWork OutThen

You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

Amiri Baraka

ChangeStrugglePeopleLongYouGet

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

Sidney Poitier

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I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.

Tony Fernandes

LivingUnderstandMoreLivedHere

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Rufus Wainwright

MusicTimeMyselfBetterKnowTry

I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don't talk about it, it can drive you insane.

Mary-Kate Olsen

AgeDriveThinkYouWrongYoung

People always ask me, 'Hey, what's Matt Damon like?' He's just a dude, just a really good person and one hell of an actor.

Michael Kelly

GoodPeopleMeHellGood PersonAsk

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

Michael Moore

WarBetterDoingIdiotResponsible

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Louis Leakey

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