David Quammen Quotes
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
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I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
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When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
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The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper
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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.
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It is the special province of music to move the heart.
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Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
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Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.
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You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
