David Attenborough Quotes

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

David Attenborough

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• Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Me
  • Nervous
  • Mouth

• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • May
  • Me

• Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Value
  • Positive

• I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Dream

• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Music
  • Literature

• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Work
  • Success
  • Guys

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Mean
  • Language
  • Dreams

• I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • She
  • America

• To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Socialism

• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Soul
  • House

• When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Respect
  • End

• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Up
  • Want

• To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Up
  • Same
  • Too Much

• I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Character
  • Never
  • Write

• My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!

  

  Zendaya
  • Man
  • Just
  • Crush

• The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

  

  Larry Niven
  • War
  • Cold
  • Cold War

• An oft-repeated anecdote is that which relates of an army officer, somewhat of a hero-worshiper, who, upon meeting Carson, exclaimed, effusively: 'So this is the great Kit Carson, who has made so many Indians run!' 'Yes,' drawled Carson, 'sometimes I run after them but most times they war runnin' after me.'

  

  Kit Carson
  • Great
  • War
  • Hero

• He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gives
  • Post
  • Fond

• Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • Guilty

• My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Time
  • Real
  • Parents

• I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

  

  David Attenborough