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.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I don't have many friends.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.
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The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.
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Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
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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.
