Donald Johanson Quotes
I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.
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I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.
