David M. Raup Quotes

The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.

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• I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

  

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• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  

  Orson Welles
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• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

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• I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

  

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• I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

  

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• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

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• My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

  

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• Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

  

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• When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.

  

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• I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

  

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• Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.

  

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• Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual.

  

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• The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• Kindness is a calling. Caring about people is powerful. Love changes lives.

  

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• The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

  

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• I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

  

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• I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

  

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• The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Certain
  • Found
  • Construction