I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

We never really wanted to play in California.

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns.

I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women.

I definitely find my time to be away from my phone because I think that's important, but when it comes to work and friends, I feel like everything is on my phone. I'll, like, leave my phone in my room for a few hours when I need my space.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar. I write on that guitar, and it's the first guitar that I put a pickup in and ran through an amplifier, splitting the signal to the amplifier and a DI or in the studio mic'ing it traditionally and putting an amp in the other room.

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

It's up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations.

With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.

The Soviet Union was a one-party state. In such states, enemies of the party become enemies of the state, and the state can punish with full weight of prosecution.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.