David Attenborough Quotes
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
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Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
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If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.
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I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
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I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students with a real-world working experience that actually offers financial rewards.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
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A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.
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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
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One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.
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The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.
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I have got important quotes in my life written on my wall in my studio in big handwriting three inches tall which I sometimes look up and read.
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My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.
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In 'Robin Hood,' I did quarterstaff fighting.
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
