David Attenborough Quotes
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a strong community here so that artists don't feel pressure to move somewhere else to succeed.
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I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
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Less is only more where more is no good.
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People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
