Louis Leakey Quotes
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.
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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.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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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.
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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.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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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.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.
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Man has been adjudged a social animal.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
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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.'
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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.'
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In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.
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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.
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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.
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You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.
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As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I'll do what I do under the moniker of Nine Inch Nails if it's appropriate. I would hate to think I would ever be in a position where I'm faking it to get a paycheck.
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Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
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THANATOS AND EROSthe American for that is:CASUAL SEX.
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As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It's a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when you're starting out, and you better not have any ego or pride, because that will be wiped away clean by utter devastation.
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At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
