Garrett Hardin Quotes

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

Garrett Hardin

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People expect me to be funnier.

John Cho

PeopleMeExpectFunnier

What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that.

Melvyn Bragg

PeopleWorldThinkDoingEducated

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Tracy Morgan

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'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.

Roger Rees

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Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Roy Orbison

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I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

Mickey Rourke

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I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

Louis MacNeice

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It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

Johnny Vegas

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I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word 'Alzheimer's disease.'

Anthony Doerr

LiveTimeSchoolMemoryHigh School

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Aurora

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When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

Peter Shilton

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I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Peter Asher

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