“In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.” PeopleYearsFirstsTwoWantedCertainSoundBlackNaturalDarkCareersCuttingColorHairClothesRedLipsCommunicateLabelsTwo YearsRestraintLipstickHair Dye Author:Rihanna
“People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.” PeopleKnowsYearsFunNaturalAnimalSpecialDangerousHavensEvolutionSurvivalSmarterSelectionDinosaursNatural SelectionDarwinism Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.” YearsSchoolNaturalFantasyAdventureReaderBreadVarietyGenreGradBread And ButterGrad School Author:Saladin Ahmed
“If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.” IfsWayYearsHumansAbleNaturalYears AgoWaveDisasterHorribleHeatTexasPakistanHuman HistoryNatural DisasterFloodingHeat Wave Author:Bill McKibben
“"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanLostNaturalForgetBrainFourPlanetsPerspectiveComputerLosingBillionsOrganismsNatural HistoryYears Of Life Author:Robert Neelly Bellah