Benjamin Van Roy Quotes
Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they'd encounter it while swimming. However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.
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I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.
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People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.
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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
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I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.
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I always tell people, 'Coming from such a big Mexican family when there's a new baby every three weeks, you have to do something to get someone's attention.'
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In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
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I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
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Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.
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When I was fifteen, I became a professional musician. I got involved with people and did certain things which led me to start making records and touring. And leaving Belfast and going to London and America, one thing led to another and I got caught up in the life that I'm living now...I was very young and i followed something. (1993)
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I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.
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I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things.
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Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they'd encounter it while swimming. However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.
