James Lovelock Quotes

Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

James Lovelock

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LifeDanceEnvironmentEarthAdapt

When people ask me if I have worked for the C.I.A., I often answer: what good to you is my answer? Because if I did, I might not say so.

Robert Littell

GoodPeopleMeYouSayAsk

I obtained a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Fellowship and entered the graduate program in History at the University of California. With no Greek or French and minimal Latin and German, I was in no position to pursue my classical interests, so I began work at Berkeley with little more than an open mind.

Robert Lucas, Jr.

WorkHistoryMindMoreCalifornia

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Meryl Streep

FaithTodayBlindSayActorWho

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

Stanley Hauerwas

MistakeDeepThinkSomeoneYouHere

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

Spike Milligan

GodLightWaitElectricitySaidHe

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Robert Fripp

LifeMy LifeExerciseProfessional

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

Michael Morpurgo

ArtPeopleWritingBelieveVoice

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

Mira Nair

FreedomCreativeMeGameHollywood

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

Chris Matthews

MeLookDifferenceSeeClownFour

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

William Hazlitt

MeBookYesterdayNewThreeYears

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.

Paul Theroux

LifeTruthImaginationValueYou

You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.

Martin Henderson

LifeCharacterYouFeelingPlace

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