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Louis Leakey

"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene."

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"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene."

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Amber Hurdle

"We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well."

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Amber Hurdle

"Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes."

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"Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around."

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Amber Hurdle

"My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy."

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Amber Hurdle

"The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here."

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Amber Hurdle

"I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe."

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Amber Hurdle

"That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody."

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Amber Hurdle

"The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism."

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Amber Hurdle

"I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others."

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"Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya."
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"When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago."
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"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."
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"The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves."
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"The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose."
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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
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"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
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"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."
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"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
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"I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England."
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