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Richard Dawkins Quotes

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

Richard Dawkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Understanding Sometimes Way Get Fine

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Fear Sail Ship Seeing Pilot Why

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Identity Nation Theft Suburbs Crimes

When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.

Aneurin Barnard

Father Mother Child Sister Bond Kid

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

Myself Strong Feelings Heritage Very

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

Power Religion Believe Drama More

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

Robert Duncan McNeill

Comedy Always Star Subtle Very Trek

So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

Michael Rapaport

People Hip-Hop Tribe Up Big Beatles

'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music, hanging out with all different kinds of people.

Little Louie Vega

Music Soul New York People Listening

That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.

Music Song Infinite Living Miracle

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

Great Equality Theatre Fall Cinema

I always do stories that I believe in, characters that I find interesting, and directors who I want to work with. All these factors have contributed while making choices and continue to as an actor and as a producer.

Work Choices Believe Interesting

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

Sad Clothes Something About Tomb

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