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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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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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.
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Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperment…greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified …the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
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If they're (his clients) not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
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In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.
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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.
