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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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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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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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
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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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There can be a new tomorrow There can be a brighter day There can be a new tomorrow Love will find a way
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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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Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
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The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
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Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.
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The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.
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At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
