David M. Raup Quotes
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
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You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.
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Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.
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The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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Treat your online affairs as part of your affairs that need to be in order - your bank, your Internet bill - you need to have people who know what you want.
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I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?
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You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!
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It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.
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Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
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Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
