Jack Horner Quotes
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
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When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
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Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.
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I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
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Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
