David Attenborough Quotes
The thing about a bush baby is that the male establishes its territory by peeing on his hands and putting it all on the walls. And after you've had a pair for about six months, you can see people coming into the house, sniffing and going: ‘Now, that’s definitely not mulligatawny soup.’
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
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Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.
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This day showed us that we are all completely voyeurs greedy for thrilling entertainment no matter if this is real or not.
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I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.
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The thing about a bush baby is that the male establishes its territory by peeing on his hands and putting it all on the walls. And after you've had a pair for about six months, you can see people coming into the house, sniffing and going: ‘Now, that’s definitely not mulligatawny soup.’
