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When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man’s leadership.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.
Millions of dollars’ worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader’s intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
We don’t communicate in full sentences anyway. We don’t need all those words.
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
I really enjoy what I do, and who I’m with and where I am. Having said that, I’m not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.
You can’t set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
I often begin movies with music in my head it’s a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don’t like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.
Having kids is something I want to see in my future – I hope.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
There was endless action – not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk – the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you’re in a crowd, you’ll always have some clean air to breathe.
Instead of asking ‘How much damage will the work in question bring about?’ why not ask ‘How much good? How much joy?’
Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
I’m not pretty. The truth is I didn’t think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself ‘Jesus Christ. I can’t do this. I don’t look anything like these guys’.
I’m almost a full-time mom.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.
Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don’t know. Depends.
I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.’
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I’m totally convinced they’re death machines.
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it’s really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
As a Christian, I think it’s really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
If you’re not a competitor, you’ve just got to go home.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.