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.

Carl Linnaeus

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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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• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
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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.

  

  Fleur East
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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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• 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.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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• If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

  

  Garth Ennis
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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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• On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

  

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• I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

  

  Lara Stone
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• She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without the others she would be unable to feel most at home in autumn, besides which, she almost feels most at home in all of them.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
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• The music industry is hard work, especially for women. A lot of people pit us against each other, comparing two body types or two women that are completely different. It's a lot of pressure.

  

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• I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different…quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

  

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• Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

  

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• When I see images of a girl who is obviously far too thin, I am just as shocked as anyone else.

  

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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.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Different
  • Firsts
  • Plant