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David Kirsch Quotes

Avocado is one of my favourite fruits, and my daughters and I love avocado in salads, and even in smoothies.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american

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Love Fruits Even Daughters Favourite

If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter. The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.

Life History Earth Development Sure

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

Learning Time Stand Up Process Stand

I've been working on the lost history of technical women.

Women History Lost Working Been

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

Perseverance Good Great Men New York

Talent works, genius creates.

Robert Schumann

Talent Brainy Genius Works Creates

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

Michael Douglas

Fear Hand More Being Other Disliked

Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.

Independence Better American Nothing

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.

Eyes Action Capture Emotion Director

In the ring, if someone hits you too hard, you can only take so many of those, and you have to send back a receipt, meaning 'Hey, settle down.' If a guy has a bad night at the office and catches you in the chin, you pop him so he knows what's going on.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Night Someone Meaning You Bad Down

The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.

Family Happiness Beach Me Cool You

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Light Day Long Create Accept Will

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Truth Sea Power Courage Generosity

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