James Hutton Quotes
[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
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I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.
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Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
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As I said before, evolution doesn’t bother me. If you tell me that God created the earth “by hand” in six days some thousands of years ago, I am impressed. If you tell me instead that God set a whole cosmos in motion some billions of years ago, a cosmos perfectly calibrated within the narrowest of margins to produce at least one planet where life would be developed through cause-effect chains that were designed into it by a purposeful Designer… I am no less impressed; in fact, I may be even more impressed. The “how” and “when” of it all seem almost inconsequential to me compared to the “what” and “why” which lie beyond cause and effect.
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[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
