Paul Bloom Quotes

Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus.

Paul Bloom

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NatureBrainWarmSurvivalHuman

I was a bad boy as a child.

Andy Dick

ChildBadBad BoyBoy

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

John Landis

MoneyPeopleMeThinkSomeoneYou

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

Anna Deavere Smith

DeathPeopleSickYouSayWant

Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

Andy Roddick

SchoolThinkEndYouGoQuit

By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.

John Waters

MusicArtStepGenerationYouWay

With Michael Jackson, when he moved, it looked like a martial artist to me. He was quicker than other dancers, but he didn't have muscles; he was just quicker and looked more in control of gravity. He looked like a martial arts master, so I tried to steal body movement from him; that's why I imitate Michael Jackson a little bit.

Shinsuke Nakamura

MeControlArtistBodyGravityWhy

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

Shiv Khera

BetterThanHonouredHonourable

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Mathew Baynton

LoveDayYourselfDoingYouCareer

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.

Loretta Napoleoni

YoungEatProducerBeingKidsCoast

If food were free, why work?

Douglas Horton

WorkFoodFreeWhyWere

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

Dorothy L. Sayers

LoveGodTrue LoveExperiencePeople

I would like to never ever think about any political issues.

Deborah Eisenberg

ThinkPoliticalNeverWouldLike

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