Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

Stephen Jay Gould

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002

Topics

LifeSimpleThreeYearsOrganic

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

John Eldredge

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In the public eye, being a victim of past injustices does not win the right to propagate current and future ones, and that's intolerable to those in charge of the race industry today, whose power relies on maintaining forever a latent rage that can be turned on and off at the will of the nation's elites.

Andrew Breitbart

FutureTodayPowerPastWinEye

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Matthew Shipp

PeopleWorldLookingGenerationYou

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Jeff Probst

CreativeControlDestinyGoalMy Own

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

Jean Stafford

HomeLeftPracticalPurposes

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

Tony La Russa

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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Mary Tyler Moore

FoodChoicesKnowHumanHuman Being

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Joyce Meyer

PeopleCriticismDownSayWayJust

It's always tough when you see a good player leave. It's not easy.

Christian Pulisic

GoodToughEasyYouSeeLeave

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Conrad Black

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You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?

Brandon Sanderson

GoodTogetherSchoolCollegeFriends

Mentors are like friendships.

Bozoma Saint John

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