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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I grew up with KTSU, and that station gave me so much info about the pantheon of black sounds: reggae, gospel, blues, soul, hip hop, and mostly they played jazz. That was a major part of how I understood music.
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
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Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.
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Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.
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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.
