David Attenborough Quotes
I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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People work hard.
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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.
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Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.
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I do remember not having good social skills as a child, although I learned them later. I learned them from hanging out at a gay disco, learning them from drag queens; and I learned them in Liverpool, and I learned them in juvenile hall. So, I learned my social skills from future criminals, drag queens, and rock stars.
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It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. This right must be considered as an ingredient in the original composition of the general government, which, though not expressed, was mutually understood. . .
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Renoir is a great success on the Salon; I think he is 'launched'. All the better! It's a very hard life, being poor.
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Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
