Louise Leakey Quotes

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Louise Leakey

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I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

Jim Renacci

FamilyThinkSomeoneGrandfatherWhy

Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming - but also around the country - I continue to hear, 'How can Washington make us buy something we don't want to buy, a product? They can't tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else - how can they do that?'

John Barrasso

HomeTravelBreakfastCountryWant

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

John Cusack

YouGoAlwaysThroughStarUsed

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.

Robert Redford

ValueMeStoryPlaceAchieveRock

I don't fund county roads.

Jeff Fortenberry

RoadsFundCounty

My only opinion on the L&H 'home movie' situation - I regret we have no financial interest in them.

Stan Laurel

HomeOpinionRegretFinancialOnly

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

Sigourney Weaver

MyselfFunThreeAlwaysFairyMade

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

Shirley Jones

GoodHappyWorldSayingBetterSay

As a kid, my nickname was Tarzan. I never wore shoes, and I walked around and fished and camped out and just was a grub.

Travis Fimmel

ShoesNeverKidOutJustAround

About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

Tom Heinsohn

GreatTimeBasketballGameThink

Nobody ever asks me why my characters don't text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change.

Judy Blume

ChangeTimeMeBookYouNobody

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

Jonathan Davis

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