David M. Raup Quotes
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

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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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Under Islamic Law, homosexuals - men and women alike - must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed. I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced...I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
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Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
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So that was somewhat of a transition coming in, but it's something that has allowed us to grow as a team and an offense.
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Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
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All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning
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Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.