Lynn Margulis Quotes

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Lynn Margulis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 5, 1938 - November 22, 2011

Topics

FoodEnvironmentalPlantsSurvive

'The Blind Side' took forever to get it out of 20th Century Fox in turnaround. It was one of three different movies I was involved with then. 'The Blind Side' just happened to be the one that got made.

John Lee Hancock

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I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

Robert J. Shiller

ThinkThingsSeemOftenTend

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.

Matt Groening

DailyThinkNewspaperWayOutGoing

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Michael Ignatieff

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The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty - whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty - and that makes them a little nervous as well.

Steve Easterbrook

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The rappers that become legendary, they're the ones you wanna be.

Stefflon Don

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When I work with other people, I try to make up for their shortcomings with my strengths, and I let others make up for my flaws with their strengths. I try to co-operate with people around me when working in a group. I like to enhance team spirit on set. I try to get everyone involved in the action.

Song Joong-ki

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After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who said it didn't matter what you did as long as you kept working. I wound up completely broke.

Tommy Kirk

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I come from very creative parents.

Tom Holland

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When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension in the proposition that your reality, your hopes, your frustrations, are just a condition of your age, that what feels unique to you is a very common thing after all.

Rumaan Alam

AgeYouthRealityYouUniqueYoung

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Michel de Montaigne

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I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Dito Montiel

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