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Louis Leakey Quotes

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

Louis Leakey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 7, 1903 - October 1, 1972

Topics

Service People Criticism Easy Senior

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Jodi Picoult

Life Live Great Me Husband Think

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.

Matthew Ramsey

Writing Song Process Someone Choose

We needed 40 years to overcome East Germany. Sometimes in history, one has to be prepared for the long haul and not ask after four months if it still makes sense to keep up our demands.

Angela Merkel

History Long Be Prepared Sometimes

I'm not one of these guys who says, Now I'm on a really hot show, better quit soon before I get labeled. That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard.

Jeff Probst

Better Now Ridiculous Quit Hot Get

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

John Wozniak

Management Genius More Guy Field He

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I'm writing is real.

Sophie Kinsella

Life Balance Mistake Writing Think

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

Roland Emmerich

New York Weather New Hollywood Force

I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the Internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.

Matt Bomer

Love Great People Process Internet

I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!

Luke Evans

Hate Think Purge I Think Should

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

Jarvis Cocker

Good Government Way Conservative Far

'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

Christopher Golden

Character Action Perfect Anarchy

For a while, I couldn't get arrested in television because everybody thought of me as that guy on 'Trapper John.' So I thought, 'Great, I'll come out here to New York and do some theater, and when they get tired of me, I'll do something else.'

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Great New York Tired Me Thought New