David Attenborough Quotes
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
