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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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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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
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God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
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It's definitely a privilege to be able to do what you love to do; it's not something that everyone gets to do, so I feel really good about that.
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The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
