Eugenie Clark Quotes
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
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When you're a kid dreaming, anything seems possible.
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Science is not a special sense. It is as wide as the literal meaning of its name: knowledge. The notion of the specialized mind is... as modern as the specialized man, 'the scientist', a word which is only a hundred years old.
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Knowledge is the cause of human progress.
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Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.
