David Suzuki Quotes
When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
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I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
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Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric.
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My idea of putting the city on is giving inspiration to others to want to put themselves on. You should never depend on someone else to put you on. I used to do that, and it didn't get me anywhere.
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I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.
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When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
