Chris Stringer Quotes
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
Quotes to Explore
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
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I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
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Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
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There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
