Peter R. Grant Quotes

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Peter R. Grant

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I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

Jennifer Egan

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One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.

Jenny Holzer

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

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Let me tell you, everyone has different experiences. I had a lot of things going on, and I am dealing with it in my own way.

Shilpa Shinde

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I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

Ron Reagan

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I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

Michael Strahan

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The idle always have a mind to do something.

Luc de Clapiers

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Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.

Lucy Larcom

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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.

Craig Brown

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The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

Branford Marsalis

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I'm me: I'm a fun, easy-going guy that likes to work hard, who's very driven and determined.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

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Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

Serge Schmemann

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