"I was being groomed as an undergraduate to……" — Donald Johanson
"I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa."
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27 Quotes by Donald Johanson
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I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be…
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Most Achievers I Know Are People Who Have Made A Strong And Deep Dedication to Pursuing A Particular Goal. That…
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And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In…
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As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating,…
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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in…
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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
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Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in…
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In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from…
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But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years.…
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Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or…
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Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a…
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One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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