David Suzuki Quotes
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
Quotes to Explore
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
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Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
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I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
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Hitchcock was a character. In one particularly scary scene I had to sneak down a dark corridor. When I got to the end there was Mr. Hitchcock, sticking out his tongue and flapping his hands in the back of his ears. I didn't dare laugh, because the cameras were turning. But he certainly eliminated any tension I felt.
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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.
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I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
