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The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights.

Michael Dickinson

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SuccessGreatRainCapableWithin

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

Jessica Savitch

RelationshipBestTalentManagement

I like to wear dresses and skirts when I go onstage because the attitude that I have is, 'I'm so excited to introduce myself to you.' And I want to be wearing what I'd be wearing to a date or a dinner party.

Jenny Slate

AttitudeMyselfDinnerYouPartyGo

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

Andrew Stanton

GoodBookHonorNeverGood Movie

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Soren Kierkegaard

BeginningEvilWorldBoredomBack

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist.

Soledad O'Brien

MorningOpportunityGreatThought

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

ManNameDrunkCowMilkHim

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Tom Lehrer

MaturityTryingAdolescenceBypass

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Louis Armstrong

SuccessMusicAgeTimeBelieveBack

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Jude Law

LongYouGoActorInspirationStage

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.

Jason Aldean

CountryBoyGeorgiaCountry Boy

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Josh Hutcherson

LookMoviesWayStorytellingBooks

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

Joseph Stiglitz

WorkDayLogicEvery DayObservation

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