Richard Owen Quotes
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'
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I am not surprised that men are not thankful to me; but I wonder that they are not grateful to God for the good which he has made me the instrument of conveying to my fellow-creatures.
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I've always loved the song 'It Might as Well Be Spring'.
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I really like kids.
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The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.
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You can write every song on an album in E and not hurt a thing.
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Just like any other company, Samsung can fail, and if that happens, how will the South Korean economy overcome the shock? If we don't decrease our over-reliance on the chaebols and prepare to let smaller, dynamic start-ups fill the gaps in their place, it won't.
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If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.
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I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.
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It's fair to say that the policy and character of my government would be, or the government which I lead, would be very different to that of President Trump.
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Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.
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That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates.
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Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
