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.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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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.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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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.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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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.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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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.
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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.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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I don't have all the answers, so my goal is to make sure that the 180-some odd members of the RSC each have a seat at the table where we can talk about their vision.
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A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.
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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.
