Charles Darwin Quotes
… cell of a tentacle, showing the various forms successively assumed by the aggregated masses of protoplasm.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
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Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
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You can't build a society without law.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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Two is enough for a secret.
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I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
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I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.
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I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'
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If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.
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Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!
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I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got something I want people to hear because I know they'll like it. They've gotta like it! The songs I've been writing are the sort of things you have to like.
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In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we're hungry.
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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
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I was a fan of westerns growing up. Every boy wanted to ride a horse and be a cowboy.
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… cell of a tentacle, showing the various forms successively assumed by the aggregated masses of protoplasm.
