Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.
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I love Michelle Williams. I think she's extraordinary. I was such a fan of 'Blue Valentine,' and I heard stories about how Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams worked on that. They lived together for a period of time as rehearsal. From nine in the morning to five at night, living in a space together. The work is really awe-inspiring.
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I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
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I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
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I need quick, easy, and healthy meals that can power me through the day. I also try to eat locally grown and organic food as much as possible - it's the best for me and the environment.
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The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.
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What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.
