Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.
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I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
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Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.
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The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.
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Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
