David Quammen Quotes
The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.David Quammen
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
Barbara Walters -
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
Gail Godwin -
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
Iggy Pop -
My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
Larry Elder -
I say I am stronger than fear.
Malala Yousafzai -
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
Gareth Gates
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
Lasse Hallstrom -
The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
Vince Vaughn -
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
Barbra Streisand -
I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
Jackie Jackson The Jacksons -
Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
Dan Bartlett
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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
Laura Riding -
Livin amuk, never givin a fuck Gimme the keys I'm drunk, and I've never driven a truck.
Eminem -
Don't knock th' weather. Nine-tenths o' th' people couldn' start a conversation if it didn' change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard -
Yes, I'm an African, born and bred. My forebears arrived in South Africa in 1688. My later forebears fought the first modern anti-colonial war on the continent of Africa, against Great Britain. I'm an African, through and through, and the fact that I'm white does not detract from my total commitment to my country and through my country, to our continent.
F. W. de Klerk -
More important than his record as a debater is Mr. Bush's record as a president. And therein lies the true opportunity for John Kerry - notwithstanding the president's political skills, his performance in office amounts to a catastrophic failure.
Al Gore -
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
Claude Bernard
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Money has not changed me. When I look at money, each dollar represents an option of something I could not do yesterday.
Farrah Gray -
I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.
Lianne La Havas -
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
Banana Yoshimoto -
I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .
Edward Smith -
The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.
David Quammen