Louise Leakey Quotes
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.
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I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
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I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.
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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
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With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
