Mary Leakey Quotes

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

Mary Leakey

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• I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Remember
  • Eye
  • Away

• Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

  

  Ted Lange
  • You
  • Film
  • Difference

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Book
  • Author
  • Salesman

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • May
  • Book
  • Science

• You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.

  

  Zendaya
  • Women
  • You
  • How

• These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Night

• I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Style
  • Try
  • Trapped

• I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Friends
  • Me
  • New York

• The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • Party
  • Revolution

• Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Pride
  • My Life

• I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Man

• I would support requiring an eligibility certificate for long-gun purchases because a permit gives the impression that someone could carry it loaded outside the home. That's not what we want to do.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Long
  • Home
  • Want

• My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Dad
  • Acting
  • Sales

• The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Man
  • Religion

• I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Time
  • History
  • Hope

• America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Important
  • Job

• Maud Muller, on a summer's day, Raked the meadows sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Health
  • Simple
  • Sweet

• Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

  

  Mary Leakey