Peter R. Grant Quotes
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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I put up some great numbers.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
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I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.
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I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.
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I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.
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Alexander Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
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We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
