David Attenborough Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
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In love, no question is ever preposterous.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
