Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.
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I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
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I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.
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While I do not agree with the tactics my opponent used to achieve this office, the voters have spoken and I respect their decision.
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Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained.
