Simon Conway Morris Quotes
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.
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Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.
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I claim the right not to incriminate myself.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
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I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.
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As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
