David Lewis-Williams Quotes

I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important respects from that of Upper Palaeolithic people, and that this distinction precluded, for the Neanderthals, both image-making and elaborate burial.

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• I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

  

  Karen O
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• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

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• All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

  

  Dan Colen
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• It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

  

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• When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

  

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• I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

  

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• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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• Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

  

  Lucille Clifton
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• Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.

  

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• Listen to the Music of the Moment, people....Dance and Sing!

  

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• Love between a man and woman is war.

  

  August Strindberg
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• We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Albert Einstein. I actually think every person can make a difference.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
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• They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.

  

  Cesar Romero
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• A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

  

  Hector Berlioz
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• Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

  

  Frances E. Willard
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• I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important respects from that of Upper Palaeolithic people, and that this distinction precluded, for the Neanderthals, both image-making and elaborate burial.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
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