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As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.
You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.
When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.
Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.
It's funny: what one tends to think of as the best work you've done is not what other people think is the best you've done.
One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.
Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.
Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.
Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.
Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.
If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'
I know for me personally, I'm a person that tends to pull back from the people that love me when I'm going through something.
Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.
I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.
Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.
Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.
I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.
A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.
I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.
The media tends to cover immigration issues through the frame of how it impacts everybody but actual citizens of the United States.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.
It is all about the kind of experience you garner over the years, which tends to make a difference in the way you play at the top level.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.