Seth Shostak Quotes

Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.

Seth Shostak

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OceanCoolComfort ZoneSlowSpeed

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Jill Lepore

HistoryGenerationMouthDownSay

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

John Burns

MenProgressSlowJudgeWearSure

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

Miguel

LifeI AmSayRealOutReal Life

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

Michelle Pfeiffer

GoodMyselfMePerformanceFeel

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

TimePoliticsYouPlaceRight Time

I'd rather have too many weird fans than no fans at all.

Dean Ambrose

WeirdFansRatherThanManyToo

We all look in the mirror and name the things that we don't like about ourselves or wish we could change. Instead, name the good things and focus on that!

Colbie Caillat

ChangeGoodMirrorFocusGood Things

People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.

Boy George

HonestyMyselfPeopleSaneLike

I don't look like a fighter. I like it, though, because it just allows me to be in the position I am now, to where I can venture out to wherever I want to go. I can go into acting. I can go into this; I can go different ways now. And because of fighting, I can do that.

Brian Ortega

I AmMeFightingLookActingI Can

For 10 years, I'd been told I was always going to be a catalogue girl, never a cover girl. Well, I got with IMG and did five covers in a year, boom, boom, boom.

Ashley Graham

GirlYearNeverAlwaysYearsGoing

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

Alice Munro

MountainThinkResultYouToo Much

I've blundered my way through life.

William Shatner

LifeWayThrough

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