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Richard Dawkins Quotes

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

Richard Dawkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: english
Birth: March 26, 1941

Topics

Think Facts You Matters Discover

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

War Poetry Me Feel Vietnam War Made

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

Discipline Someone Portrait You Find

The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

Car Motorcycle Drive First Kid Knew

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

Good Red Blue Painting Colors Think

What is not cool is if we have a problem with an artist or if an artist has a problem with us, come to us directly. Talk to us. Don't start a Twitter war and all that kind of stuff. That's silly.

War Cool Start Problem Silly Artist

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Luc de Clapiers

War Virtue Vice Up Fights

When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician. That's basically what we wanted to be. If you had asked me very truthfully what I wanted to be when I was 16, the answer would've been, 'I want to be a 55-year-old black musician.'

Me Black Grow You Artist New

I try not to dwell too much on it, but I think everyone gets worried about showing off all their flaws on the beach.

Debra Stephenson

Beach Think Flaws Too Much Try Off

I always think 12 times before saying anything.

Saying Think Always Anything Before

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

Moment Day Looking Back Looking Free

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

Life Love Passion Heart Looking Way

Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.

Experience Impossible Care Say True

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