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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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• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Good
  • True
  • Singing

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Perfect
  • Animals
  • Vanity

• 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.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Fighting
  • Doing
  • Video Games

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

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Doing
  • Lord
  • Rings

• 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
  • Different
  • Future

• Hip-hop was started on groups.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Hip Hop
  • Groups
  • Started

• 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
  • Find

• 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
  • Energy
  • Easy
  • Economy

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

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Content
  • Prefer

• 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.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Stop
  • Brain
  • Worry

• 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
  • Want
  • Poetry

• I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

  

  Becky G
  • Life
  • Fans
  • Hunger

• I wanted to play baseball!

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

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

  

  Sam Tsui
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• Man has been adjudged a social animal.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Social

• 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
  • Together
  • Success
  • Imagination

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

  

  Karl Popper
  • People

• Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Past
  • Sometimes
  • Learn

• Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while in actuality, hours have been spent on the picking and choosing of said jewellery, scarves, etc. Unless you are Keith Richards and can absolutely pull it off, less is more.

  

  Emma Ishta

• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Wonder
  • Relation
  • Effectiveness

• One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

  

  David Perkins
  • Problem
  • Learning
  • Language

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

  

  Louis Leakey