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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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
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Music is such a powerful tool, and there are so many people who need love and encouragement and hope.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.
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There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
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The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
