David Attenborough Quotes

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Dark
  • Name
  • Immigration

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Future
  • Think
  • Twitter

• In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Blue

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Reality
  • You

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Chance
  • Hold

• As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Something
  • Humility

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • War
  • Tax

• I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Want
  • Song
  • Little Things

• Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

  

  August Wilson
  • Time
  • Healing

• But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Home
  • Age

• I've always had problems with guys!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Always
  • Problems
  • Had

• You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

  

  David Attenborough
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