Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
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The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
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I speak my mind. That's who I am.
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I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
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Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
