"Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life."

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Source : Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.17, Univ of California Press

Lynn Margulis

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“Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.”

Source : Song: Liquid Swords, Album: Liquid Swords
“I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.”
“Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.”
“I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.”
“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”
“And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.”
“If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.”
“Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.”

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