Spencer Wells Quotes
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.
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Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
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I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.
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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
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I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
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My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
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My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.
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Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.
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I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.
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I partnered with Working Wardrobes because I wanted to be part of an organization that lifts people's spirits.
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It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.
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DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.
