Dinosaurs Quotes - Page 9

• The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote...

  Phil Plait

  Differences, Space, Vote

  "How to defend Earth from asteroids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2011.

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• When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much.

  Will Ferrell

  Morning, Adventure, Kids

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• I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Blogging, February

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• I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Writing, Trying

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• An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, War, Technology

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Taken, Iraq, Would Be

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• Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sight, Space, Want

  "'Space Chronicles': Why Exploring Space Still Matters". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.

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• Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

  will.i.am

  Moving, Kids, Kicking It

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

  Jack Horner

  Jurassic Park, Parks, Students

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• Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Dream, Growing Up, Fascination

  "How Would Aliens Fare Against Dinosaurs? Barry Sonnenfeld Aims To Find Out" by Mike Fleming Jr., deadline.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look: Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?

  Alan Grant

  Running, Men, Years

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• The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Asteroids, Saws, Excuse

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth". publicradioeast.org. 2014.

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• Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

  Alexander Lebed

  Russia, Tails, Needed

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• Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and Id love to bring those interests to a show like E.R. or The West Wing, or a movie like Jurassic Park.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Kids, Dust, Wings

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• The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

  Kanye West

  Pride, Giving, Humanity

  "Kanye West Talks Hope for Humanity's Future" by Daniel D'addario, Francesca Trianni, time.com. April 16, 2015.

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• We really have dinosaurs today, without any question. You just need the right weather conditions, as I see it, to get huge creatures. And in the ocean, of course, we have huge creatures.... this is where the plesiosauruses seem to be today, and perhaps also this fire breathing dragon is still down there - very rare, but occasionally there.

  Walter Lang

  Ocean, Fire, Dragons

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• Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims.... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water.

  Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

  Horse, Ducks, Water

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• It's important for a director to provide as much information, especially when we're working with things that we have to conceive out of thin air. You can't just expect an actor to understand: 'Oh, there's a dinosaur coming at you". OK, so I'm going to automatically know how big it is and what it sounds like? I need details. How close does he get to me? How tall is he? What will the impact be of his cry when he's screaming at me or when he's blowing smoke or air in my face?

  Zoe Saldana

  Impact, Air, Important

  "Zoe Saldana on Make-up, Stunts, & being a Guardian of the Galaxy". ComicMix Interview, www.comicmix.com. December 8, 2014.

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• People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, Animal, Years

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• This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Teacher, Horse, Jesus

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• Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.

  Tom Johnson

  Writing, Cowboy, Land

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

  Lisa Randall

  Dark, Thinking, Extinction

  "Not My Job: Physics Professor Lisa Randall Gets Quizzed On Phys Ed". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.

  Brian Blessed

  Heartbroken, Children, America

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• I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Years, Needs

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• To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision.

  James Randi

  Laughter, Book, Character

  Skeptic Magazine, Volume 3, No. 4, 1995.

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