Richard Dawkins Quotes

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

Richard Dawkins

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GoodLittleTheoryLotExplains

Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.

Andy Dunn

DepressionBelieveLovedFeelHard

Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.

Amisha Patel

AttitudeMindSexyBodyBeingState

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

John Polanyi

KnowledgePowerResponsibilityRest

Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with its technocratic and technological determinism and market idolatry, had thirty years. And now it, too, is dead.

John Ralston Saul

DepressionGlobalizationYouFlexible

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

Steve Ballmer

WorkPeopleThinkPlaceWantWhere

All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is possible.

Shukla Bose

LifeChangeChildrenParentsWorld

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

Ruth Duccini

WarWorldProudPlantWorld War I

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Christopher Hitchens

ViewMoralityOrdinaryInnate

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

MotherHopeCalmHelpWillYoga

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't.

Chris Pratt

FunnyWorldComedyAnythingWorking

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

Boris Kodjoe

TimeNew YorkPlaceParisNewWhole

For a long time, I've ranted against naming your startup community 'Silicon Whatever.' Instead, I believe every startup community already has a name. The Boulder startup community is called Boulder. The L.A. startup community is called L.A. The Washington D.C. startup community is called Washington D.C.

Brad Feld

CommunityTimeBelieveNameLong

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