Mark Pagel Quotes

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

Mark Pagel

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• I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Kid
  • Los Angeles

• I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Want
  • Project

• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • King

• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Up
  • Job
  • Hair

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Growing
  • Army
  • Kiss

• Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Group
  • Within
  • Racial

• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Discipline

• The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Chinese
  • More

• Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Party
  • Christian
  • Dog

• Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Night
  • Paris
  • Now

• On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Father
  • House
  • Old

• Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • You
  • Question
  • Talking

• The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Better
  • Start
  • Games

• We all have our own little thing, I think.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Own

• World Cups can be career-defining.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Career
  • Cups

• I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

  

  Serinda Swan
  • Culture
  • Color
  • Dresses

• When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Equal
  • Discrimination

• When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out how to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Kind

• Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

  

  Confucius
  • Friendship
  • Principles
  • Flatter

• Let every man mind his own business.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Man

• You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

  

  Mark Pagel