Louis Leakey Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
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I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
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I have a lot in common with Moana. I mean, we both grew up on islands. We both are deeply rooted in our culture.
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I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.
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Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
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What I'll say is this: I respect his consistency. Never missing a game in 31 years, that's something.
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The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.
