Carl Linnaeus Quotes
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
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I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtracks to movies. Quentin Tarantino always picks amazing soundtracks, so I would like to do something for him or write a song for him.
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I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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I've chosen a career that's quite tricky. You have such high highs and low lows, and it's outrageously inconsistent. But it is what I love, which is so rare, and I'm so grateful for that every day.
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Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
