James Lovelock Quotes
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I don't believe in luck.
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See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
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You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
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But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.
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I know about raising money.
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Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
