David Suzuki Quotes
I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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But I think we need the international market.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.
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Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
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For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
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Crimes, like Virtues, are their own Rewards.
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From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.
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I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.
