David Lewis-Williams Quotes
A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world, were a kind of “killing”.
Quotes to Explore
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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I climb mountains.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old.
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When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.
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I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo - these are names we never would have dreamed major corporations would choose.
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Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
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It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers.
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
