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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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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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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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
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I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
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I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.
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Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.
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It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
