David Attenborough Quotes
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
Quotes to Explore
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Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.
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The world is in motion, as it seems.
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I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.
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It as an argument between the world of emotion versus the world of the intellect. It's the idea that you can suppress a person's mind and a person's experiences, mentally, psychologically and intellectually, but you can't completely quiet them to the point of dormancy and the emotionally life a person. You still have the heart and what the heart remembers and what the heart experiences. And even that isn't important that that comes across.
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
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I have learned this because I always take off my shoes on planes and then am horrified, doing a tip toe dance in the bathroom
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
