Asa Gray Quotes
It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
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I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I have nothing to hide.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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A reader told me recently, in London, said that 'well, I read that you write the last sentence first, so I always read your last sentence first.' And I said, 'oh, no, you're not supposed to do that.'
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I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
