William Vogt Quotes
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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There are two words for everything.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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Anyone who embraces the Republic of China with all of their heart definitely does not support the Taiwan independence movement.
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The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
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Imagine that we didn't know the chimpanzee, that all we knew were those bonobos who have sex all the time and are peaceful and female-dominated and that people would say that this is our only close relative. I think we would have totally different theories about ourselves and our background. But, of course, it didn't happen that way.
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I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.
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There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
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Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
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We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
