Charles Lyell Quotes

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

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• My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

  Kat Graham
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• I never ever paid attention to any election.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  

  Oliver Evans
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• The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

  

  Harriet Martineau
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• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

  

  A. A. Milne
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• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

  

  Candice Olson
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• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

  

  Karen Maitland
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• If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

  

  Jo Nesbo
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• When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

  

  Emmy Rossum
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• How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

  

  Jason Statham
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• I can say this very clearly: I have come into this Congress with an antiwar bias.

  

  Lois Frankel

• You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

  

  Charles Lyell
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