Neil Shubin Quotes
When you see these deep similarities among different organs and bodies, you begin to recognize that the diverse inhabitants of our world are just variations on a theme.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
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My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.
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If we don't have a vote on September 11th, it will be my feeling that the president didn't weigh in strong enough
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American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
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I figured he was getting a feel for who I thought should win it. Then I realized he was telling me that I had won it.
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Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.
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And I realize now that that was . . . that’s the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you’re loved, let it wash over you.
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Speaking from Russia, Attorney General John Ashcroft reveals that an American named Jose Padilla is under arrest, accused of plotting a radiation bomb attack in this country. In fact, Padilla had, by this time, already been detained for more than one month. Number three. February 5, 2003. Secretary of State Powell tells the United Nations Security Council of Iraq's concealment of weapons, including 18 mobile biological weapons laboratories, justifying a U.N. or U.S. first strike. Many in the U.N. are doubtful. Months later, much of the information proves untrue. February 7, 2003. Two days later, as anti-war demonstrations continue to take place around the globe.
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From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
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Performing is the most powerful drug on earth. I get a come-down if we don't gig for a few weeks, it's unbelievable.
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I'm just happy to be working consistently.
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Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.
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Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.
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The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
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The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
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Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.
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I always wanted to try and come up with a new and difference voice for every character, so you find slight variations.
