Simon Conway Morris Quotes
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.
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I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
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I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.
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'Jelly-bean' is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.
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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
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Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
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You have to remember that whatever pressure there is flying around, most of it is on the home team.
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Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
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The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
