David Attenborough Quotes
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.
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I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.
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All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
