David Lewis-Williams Quotes
It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it explodes in their heads and takes them off to the spirit realms – that is, they enter a state of trance at the far end of the intensified trajectory.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
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I'm on top cuz I deserve to beSo simmer down, calm your nerves at leastSpeak your words with peaceBefore you lay out on the curb deceased.
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The 'patron saint' of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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I think most people don't understand: I have nothing to do with that. I just open my mouth, and it comes out that way.
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It's critical for girls to see role models like myself that are in technical fields. Looking for ways to come in as speakers or do a career day, or just find a way to connect with students or invite students to their workplaces to shadow them for the day... is critically important.
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Even after doing that TV thing, 'Roswell,' I'm still waiting to see my first UFO.
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It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
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If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
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I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.
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When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.
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I do talk to individuals still in the business of tracking individuals in the homeland and abroad. A lot of them have felt that they were hanging on by their fingernails a bit in terms of tracking all the potential threats out there.
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When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.
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What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it explodes in their heads and takes them off to the spirit realms – that is, they enter a state of trance at the far end of the intensified trajectory.
