David Attenborough Quotes

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

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• I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Best
  • Care

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
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• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
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  • Party

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
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  • Space
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• Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
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  • Times
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• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
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• I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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  • Waiting

• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
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• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
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• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Innocence
  • Weaknesses

• I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • Want
  • Independent
  • Integrity

• I still get scared every time I go out. I get scared taking off; I get scared on the wave, falling, everything. But, you know, growing up with it, I guess you're a little more comfortable.

  

  John John Florence
  • Up
  • Time
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• The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Book

• Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

  

  Ann Aguirre
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• Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

  

  David Attenborough
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