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Donald Johanson

"My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago."

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Donna Grant

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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Donna Grant

"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."

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Donna Grant

"To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one."

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Donna Grant

"It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different."

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Donna Grant

"There will always be a father."

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Donna Grant

"And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently."

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Donna Grant

"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."

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Donna Grant

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

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Donna Grant

"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends."

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Donna Grant

"My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike."

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Donald Johanson
"My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago."

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Donald Johanson
"I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it."

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Donald Johanson
"When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit."

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Donald Johanson
"And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask."

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Donald Johanson
"I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution."

Death

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Donald Johanson
"There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved."

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Donald Johanson
"But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures."

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Donald Johanson
"One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it."

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Donald Johanson
"This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists."

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Donald Johanson
"Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort."

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