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.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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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.
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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.
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If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
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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.
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I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.
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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.
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The principles and methods for improvement are the same for service as for manufacturing. The actual application differs, of course, from one product to another, and from one type of service to another.
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I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.
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How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
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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.
