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
  • Life
  • Long
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• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Next
  • Still
  • Dreaming

• 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
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

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

  

  Oliver Evans
  • People
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  • Eat

• 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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  • Know
  • Harmony

• 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
  • World
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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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  • Trouble

• 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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  • Belief

• 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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• I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

  

  Cory Hardrict

• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Alien

• I saw Bitcoin as an actual market opportunity: as a trillion-dollar marketplace with long-term potential.

  

  Adam Draper
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  • Opportunity
  • Potential

• However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
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  • Song

• Never dress older than you are! The five wardrobe items you must have are a nice pair of well-fitting shoes, pajamas, sexy yet comfortable lingerie, a party dress in a bold colour and a jumpsuit.

  

  Elizabeth Jagger
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  • Shoes

• 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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