August Weismann Quotes
The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the elemental forces embodied in itself, and so has rather grown than come into being at an almighty word.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'
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Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I'm interested in the film world; I love being a storyteller.
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As much as "The Lobster" feels like a world we recognize but not the world we live in, it's all drawn in an allegorical way from all the systems that exist.
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The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the elemental forces embodied in itself, and so has rather grown than come into being at an almighty word.
