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.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• 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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  • Out

• 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.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
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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.

  

  Wale
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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.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Thinking
  • Want
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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
  • Earth
  • Faith
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• If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Fall
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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
  • Knowledge
  • Ability
  • Order

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

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Accepting
  • Call Me

• 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.

  

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

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Music
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• Love between a man and woman is war.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Love
  • War
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• I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Influence

• That certainly isn't going on in the second and third quarter. So there are indications that the world is ready to start traveling again.

  

  Doug Parker
  • World
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• If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.

  

  Rabbi Akiva
  • Heart
  • Light
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• Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

  

  Q-Tip
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• My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
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  • Mom
  • Type

• 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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  • Type
  • Suggest