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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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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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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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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I'm barefoot whenever I can be.
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...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
