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At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

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• Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Doing
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• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
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• Hip-hop was started on groups.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Hip Hop
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• As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Story
  • Voice
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• China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

  

  Ma Jun
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• I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
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• If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Family
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• I wanted to play baseball!

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

  

  Sam Tsui
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  • Music
  • You

• Man has been adjudged a social animal.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Man
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• There can be a new tomorrow There can be a brighter day There can be a new tomorrow Love will find a way

  

  Jackie DeShannon

• Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

  

  Haile Selassie
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• It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

  

  Karl Popper
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• One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

  

  Maria Montessori
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• 'This affair must all be unravelled from within.' He tapped his forehead. 'These little grey cells. It is ‘up to them’ - as you say over here.'

  

  Agatha Christie

• In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
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• In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.

  

  Matt Taibbi
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• Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

  

  James Hillman
  • Time
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• In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

  

  Bobby Farrelly Boney M.
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• I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

  

  Amanda Peterson
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• I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective.

  

  Craig Sherman
  • Perspective

• Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Injury
  • Weapon
  • Military Activity

• For organisations, flexibility is a must to cope with fluctuations in demand and remain competitive, and people must be able to develop adaptable attitudes to quickly embrace evolving business conditions, new business opportunities, and shifting strategies.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • People
  • Business

• At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

  

  Louis Leakey