James Hutton Quotes
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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Glamour is really fun.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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'This is our Smeg fridge, the whole house is made of Smeg. We're made of Smeg, aren't we, Roy?' 'Yes, dear.'
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Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be called scientific natural history, which makes available the groundwork - the foundation work - of what is actually on the Earth.
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The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
