Hope Jahren Quotes

While both plants and animals awaken via distinct changes in metabolic functioning, most plants prefer to err on the side of caution, waiting for hints of full-on summer before they bloom.

Hope Jahren

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I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

John Goodman

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'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

Rod Lurie

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At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion?

Robert Wilson

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I sing about life.

Marvin Gaye

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The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

Michael Patrick King

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If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

Dexter Gordon

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Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

Doug Stanhope

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The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

Doug Liman

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Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

Colin Quinn

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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

Anne Lamott

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'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

Alice Munro

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