Mary Leakey Quotes

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

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• Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Health
  • Decisions
  • Insurance

• I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Romantic
  • Comedies
  • Basically

• Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Challenges

• My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Time
  • Want
  • Me

• I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Always
  • Beginning
  • End

• I eat like a normal 6-year-old, but if you look at the mortality statistics, I mean, 6-year-olds don’t die very often. 'Part 2 - Billionaire Warren Buffett says GOP health reform bills are relief for the rich' PBS Newshour (27 June 2017)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Die
  • Health
  • June

• An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Interesting

• I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Why
  • War

• Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Money
  • Boy

• Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.

  

  Edward Young
  • Today
  • Wise

• America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I’d rather be America’s enemy.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Up
  • Friends
  • America

• All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Up
  • Children

• The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell

• I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

  

  Eric Close
  • Life
  • Parents
  • College

• I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

  

  Betty White
  • Dog
  • Cooking
  • Kitchen

• I know how to win big matches.

  

  Angelique Kerber

• Football is my life, and I cannot imagine myself doing anything other than playing this game.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Life
  • Game
  • Football

• As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

  

  Marie Helvin

• All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

  

  O. Henry
  • Fall
  • Hypocrite
  • Liars

• I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Women
  • Earth
  • Boy

• America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Years
  • President

• The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • House
  • Air

• When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stop

• Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

  

  Mary Leakey