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Helen Fisher Quotes

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1947

Topics

Brain Human Brain Human Built Itself

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Beauty Together Mountains World Kind

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

Steven Sinofsky

Family Father Business Looking First

There was a very strong bipartisan coalition in Congress under President Bill Clinton that passed the Defense of Marriage Act. And you've had a majority of the states in this country that have strongly stated that marriage ought to be remain the union between one man and one woman.

Marriage Woman Man Strong You Act

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

Knowledge Path Discipline Yourself

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

Choice Race Birth Issue

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

Someone Bad Would Second Rather

My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.

Mother She Old Years Died

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

Want Movies DNA Audience Film Going

I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.

Education Technology Innovation First

There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.

People Me Famous Camera Accept Out

Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn't.

Water Mountains Plants Unique Dirty

My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.

Father Money Job Me Stupid Think

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