Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes
In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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There is no truly global justice.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me.
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Taking a vote or poll is a great simple way to take a decision, but it doesn't help a group find consensus. It actually polarizes people and highlights the differences between them. People end up getting entrenched in their views.
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The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal.
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In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.
