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Simon Conway Morris Quotes

One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high.

Simon Conway Morris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1951

Topics

Confidence Say Human High Pretty

We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.

Fear Great Evil Saying Face Look

If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.

Man Blame You Back White Land

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Life Poetry Thinking I Can Distance

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

Robbie Williams

Success Fame Things Success Is Quite

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Robertson Davies

Art Drama Intellectual Discussion

Public housing officials are free to discriminate against you on the basis of criminal records, including arrest records. And so, you know, what you find is that even for these extremely minor offenses, people find themselves trapped in a permanent second-class status and struggling to survive.

Michelle Alexander

People Survive Free You Find Know

Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.

Door Doing Kind Never Always Big

I've spent a lot on clothes. I'm not kidding when I say I could have bought several country homes with the money. I've also given a lot away over time. I had a lovely Yves Saint Laurent jacket that I'd only worn once or twice, but I'm one for spring cleaning rather than storing my clothes.

Time Money Spring Clothes Cleaning

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

Christine Sinclair

Women Team Growing Up Grow You Know

You can't read when you're traveling with other people; it always feels a bit rude.

Courtney Barnett

People You Rude Always Traveling

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

Brendan Gleeson

Good Black And White People Think

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

Impossible Decisions You Listen How

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