Simon Conway Morris Quotes
It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
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My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.
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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.
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L.A. is a really good home base. I've grown up here, and so sometimes I have wanderlust even though I tour. You think it would be cured by touring, but sometimes I feel like I want to be somewhere else.
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I would've loved to have children and I'm really good with kids, but I just didn't want to commit to anything when I had cancer. I didn't want to plan for the future.
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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
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What is important ... is for Syria fully to cooperate over these questions that have been raised.
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It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.
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Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!
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[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.
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As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
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There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
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Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.
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It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
