Variety Quotes - Page 28

• Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Wells, Splitting, Divergence

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• Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Latin, Animal, Plant

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• We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually.

  James Van Praagh

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The expression of divinity is in variety.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Expression, Divinity

  "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". Locus Magazine Interview, www.locusmag.com. September 1998.

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• Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

  Mary Wesley

  People, Persons, Conception

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• Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

  Charles C. Mann

  Two, Maps

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• Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.

  Andie MacDowell

  Appreciation, Needs, Six

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• When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.

  Samuel West

  People, Different, Wells

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• Variety is not everything! Viagra is!

  Tiger Woods

  Viagra

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• Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

  Veronica Roth

  Book, Reading, People

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• Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Hate, Thinking, Sight

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• When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Sorry, Thinking, Important

  "Didn't he do well?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2004.

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• It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Issues, Imagination

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press

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• Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.

  William D. Cohan

  Wall, Bankers, Four

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• There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.

  PSY

  Artist, Korea, Musician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

  Paul Keating

  Men, Three, Politician

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• Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

  Richard Rosen

  Understanding, Frozen, Jargon

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• There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

  L. M. Boyd

  Animal, Sharks, Pool

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• The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

  Stephen Daldry

  Successful, Class, People

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". Interview with Andy Bailey, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, Zoologist, Term

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• Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, Combination, Physiological

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• We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Needs, Today

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Animal, Law

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• We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Ideas, Triggers

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• Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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