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 had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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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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Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.
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I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
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An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.
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We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
