E. O. Wilson Quotes

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

E. O. Wilson

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I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'

Jimmy Iovine

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When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

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My style icons are Lucille Ball for her bouffant hair and all the updos, James Dean for his rockabilly style - the denim and rolled-up T-shirt thing. And I am also inspired by Dita Von Teese and Gwen Stefani. Their style is retro, but it's still very feminine at the same time.

Andra Day

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Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are the newest new thing since the arrival of the movies just over a century ago.

John Lanchester

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It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

John Lewis

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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.

Anna Deavere Smith

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I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

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No matter what, our American Army is so big, and we are so very thankful to them.

Suga

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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

Story Musgrave

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My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.

Michiko Kakutani

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People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

Michael Palin

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I am careful with what I eat because that's my job. If I had to plump up for a role, I would do it.

Dilshad Vadsaria

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