Ernst Mayr Quotes

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

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• Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

  

  Harold Ross
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• If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

  

  Dallas Willard
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• I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

  

  Uzo Aduba
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• I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.

  

  Maiara Walsh
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• I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• Cricket was my reason for living.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Reason
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• I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Always
  • More
  • Vietnam

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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  • Rock

• I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

  

  Iman
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• As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

  

  Nadia Ali
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• Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.

  

  Walt Disney
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• Never use a conditional tense when it comes to money.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
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• I can't play a slave.

  

  Dorothy Dandridge
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• When you know what the male species is looking for - 'I'm not into a redhead,' 'I don't want a fat chick,' - I have to tell them that X won't date you unless you're this. I'm just the messenger.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Redhead

• Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
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• We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.

  

  Om Malik
  • Live
  • True
  • Crazy

• I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
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  • Earth
  • Wonder

• If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Great

• Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Certain
  • Theory

• Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Author
  • Evolution
  • Theory