Quotes About Evolution

My New York, the one I identify with as a kid, has greatly changed. And I'm sure the people who were adults when I was a kid probably felt the same way.

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.

I feel if the Punjabi cinema is experimenting, I should also at least try and do roles which create a new identity with every film.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.

Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.

I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

I don't mind if people say I was on 'American Idol,' because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I'm super proud of it, but I don't want that to be all there is to me.

'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

If I could just get better a little bit each year, then I did my job.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.

We've really learned to ignore past failures.

Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.