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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I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.
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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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One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do. People don't trust you to do something different. In animation, it's all about trust and how far can you go away from yourself. It's a really marvelous environment that's extremely creative.
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I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side.
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Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.
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I don't spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I'm a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry.
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If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
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You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
