Adriaan Kortlandt Quotes
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors and then retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
Nancy Kress
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
Wale
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
Orlando Bloom
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
Adam Lambert
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Samuel P. Huntington
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
Edmund Morgan
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
Carla Bley
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My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
Frances O'Grady
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Samuel Johnson
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Well, I don't worry about ratings. I'm trying to win a ballgame right now. Whatever it takes to win a ballgame, we're going to do it. If it takes a four-hour game, that's what we have to do.
Larry Bird
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Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
Edmund Spenser
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
Larry Page
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Beauty will snatch us by the heart and love us until we are raw with understanding.
Aberjhani
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Com'è in proverbio, ognun corre a far legnaAll'arbore che 'l vento in terra getta.
Ludovico Ariosto
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Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.
John Madden
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Most interesting forest I have seen in my whole life.
John Muir
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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
John Shelby Spong
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One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.
Sean Parker
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Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.
Alex Trebek
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Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors and then retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.
Adriaan Kortlandt