David Attenborough Quotes
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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People take things so seriously.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.
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The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
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What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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If we humans disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.
