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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There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!
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We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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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.
