Louis Leakey Quotes

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Own
  • Reach
  • My Own

• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feel

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Way
  • Person
  • English

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Moving
  • Opportunities

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Never

• I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Sad

• I'm the best Twitterer.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Best

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Country
  • War
  • Day

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Heart
  • Broken

• For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • Song
  • Heaven
  • Tears

• The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

  

  David Icke
  • Unique

• Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• Most of the things that happened to them we were up on, but we learned a few things too.

  

  Dick Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Learned

• I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

  

  Louis Leakey
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