David Attenborough Quotes
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
Quotes to Explore
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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One area where the state can be more effective in addressing the doctor shortage is to focus on making sure that Arizona is a friendly environment for doctors and those wishing to practice medicine.
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Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
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Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
