Maria Sibylla Merian Quotes
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
Lael Brainard -
I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
Adam Beach -
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
Jaan Tallinn -
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie -
I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
Tamra Davis
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
Zubin Mehta -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
Jacki Weaver -
I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
Madeleine Stowe -
Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
Dan Hill -
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
Jackie Chan
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
G. Edward Griffin -
Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
Lars Feld -
Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
Ma Jun -
I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
Usain Bolt -
When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
Samantha Power
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Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.
Cyril Connolly -
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
Benedict Cumberbatch -
To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
Kate Hudson -
Me and my brother get along super well. We're, like, best friends. So we'll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it's cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don't have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do.
Billie Eilish -
It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
Paloma Faith -
In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.
Maria Sibylla Merian