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If you try to envision how life evolved from the first organic molecules, it had to have been a herky-jerky process, full of twisted pathways and failures, most of them must have gone nowhere. But evolution has a way of creating winners from countless experiments over long periods of time. – Author Levitt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was happy that we were able to achieve what I think both Dean and A.G. really wanted to achieve, which was a really sort of intentional transition process that allowed me, but also a team of people who will now move into fresh positions in newsroom leadership, to really have time to work closely together, so many transitions in the past, in fact the majority of them, have taken place in a somewhat herky-jerky or unexpected way, where something happens, somebody departs suddenly, someone is dismissed from the job. – Jeremy Barr	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The general story is people who play video games right after might be a little hopped up and jerky but it doesnt fundamentally alter who they are, it is like going to see a sad movie. It might make you cry but it doesnt make you clinically depressed. – Patrick Markey	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
All these cliché, black and white, jerky kind of figures that we don't pay much attention to anymore... it suddenly turns them into human beings. – Peter Jackson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It was a little herky-jerky, a little abrupt at times, but never felt threatened, never feel endangered here at all. – Russ Versaggi of Tampa	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Everything you do is very gentle, you don’t want to do jerky motions ever. – Robert Hamilton	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He was totally broiled, his skin had fallen off his body. There were huge chunks of skin on the sauna floor. He literally looked like jerky. – Joseph Madalon	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
His skin had fallen off his body. There were huge chunks of skin on the sauna floor. He literally looked like jerky. – Joseph Madalon	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

If you try to envision how life evolved from the first organic molecules, it had to have been a herky-jerky process, full of twisted pathways and failures, most of them must have gone nowhere. But evolution has a way of creating winners from countless experiments over long periods of time.

– Author Levitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was happy that we were able to achieve what I think both Dean and A.G. really wanted to achieve, which was a really sort of intentional transition process that allowed me, but also a team of people who will now move into fresh positions in newsroom leadership, to really have time to work closely together, so many transitions in the past, in fact the majority of them, have taken place in a somewhat herky-jerky or unexpected way, where something happens, somebody departs suddenly, someone is dismissed from the job.

– Jeremy Barr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The general story is people who play video games right after might be a little hopped up and jerky but it doesnt fundamentally alter who they are, it is like going to see a sad movie. It might make you cry but it doesnt make you clinically depressed.

– Patrick Markey

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

All these cliché, black and white, jerky kind of figures that we don't pay much attention to anymore... it suddenly turns them into human beings.

– Peter Jackson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was a little herky-jerky, a little abrupt at times, but never felt threatened, never feel endangered here at all.

– Russ Versaggi of Tampa

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Everything you do is very gentle, you don’t want to do jerky motions ever.

– Robert Hamilton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He was totally broiled, his skin had fallen off his body. There were huge chunks of skin on the sauna floor. He literally looked like jerky.

– Joseph Madalon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

His skin had fallen off his body. There were huge chunks of skin on the sauna floor. He literally looked like jerky.

– Joseph Madalon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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