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.David Lewis-Williams
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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.
Orlando Bloom -
For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
Mao Zedong -
Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
Felicia Day -
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.
Adam Pascal -
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
Carlos Slim
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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.
J. William Fulbright -
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.
T.I. -
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.
Akio Morita -
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.
Johnny Mathis -
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.
Kimberly Bryant -
Even after doing that TV thing, 'Roswell,' I'm still waiting to see my first UFO.
Kyle MacLachlan
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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.
Jane Pauley -
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
Andre Braugher -
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.
David Dinkins -
When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.
John C. Mather -
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.
David Petraeus -
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Idries Shah
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In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
Alvar Aalto -
This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.
Christiana Figueres -
I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.
Harriet Harman -
My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.
Kathy Lette -
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.
David Lewis-Williams