David Attenborough Quotes

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

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• Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Feel
  • Dead

• I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Peace

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Country
  • Better

• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Quality

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Me
  • End

• Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • Hand
  • Hell

• It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Up
  • Women
  • True

• I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Give

• In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Politics

• I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Believe
  • Thing

• I hope that I will be able to work all of my life - even when I am older. It's easier to do that in Europe than in America, because in America it is difficult for older actresses to find work.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • America

• Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Mysterious

• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• Not to know one another to a degree that went beyond all possibility of knowing one another was beautiful.

  

  Max Frisch
  • Beautiful

• The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Hope
  • Optimistic