David Attenborough Quotes
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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It's cool to see a woman be like, 'This is what I want - this is what I don't want.' It's good to see someone making choices for themselves.
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There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished on linear economic principles. We need a transition to circular economic principles and practice.
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We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects the window and stole our laundry detergent - which wasn't a big deal, but it felt symbolic when I heard about it later as an adult.
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A good jockey has to be physically well balanced. They have to possess a strong upper body and a strong lower body. You've gotta have quick reflexes, and you've got to be incredibly coordinated. But it's you're instincts that have to be perfect. You can't be an exceptional rider without instincts.
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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
