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"One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult."
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"If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it."
"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."
"All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that."
"Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon."
"I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it."
"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."
"I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working."
"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets."
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"Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task."
"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."
"Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people."
"Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place."
"Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago."
"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads."
"We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man."
"We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed."
"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."
"To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils."
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