David Attenborough Quotes
I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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Embrace your weirdness!
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The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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The brain is very good at self-delusion.
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If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
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The biggest misrepresentation there is that (it's because) Dan's got a lot of money. That's not it. We've got a rule. Believe me, if we had no rules, Dan would spend some money.
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You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.
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I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
