Neil Shubin Quotes

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

Neil Shubin

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• It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Game

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Growing
  • Years

• Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Night
  • Man

• An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Insurance
  • Accomplishment

• Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Environment
  • Better
  • More

• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Distance
  • Laughter

• Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Change
  • Myself

• You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Important
  • Remember
  • You

• What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Fear

• Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • God
  • May
  • Opportunity

• I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

  

  Eminem
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Good
  • Long
  • Free

• When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • You
  • Old
  • Sunday

• I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Good
  • Job
  • Together

• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • More
  • Social
  • Four

• How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • People
  • Immigration

• That was a big swing, ... We're hanging in there, with a chance to make some plays and we don't. That was tough to overcome.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Chance
  • Overcome
  • Swing

• We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

  

  Neil Shubin
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