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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(We are) the herpes of American cinema (because) we aren't going anywhere...
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I'm never going to complain about doing my job. I love what I do!
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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is well to mark closely their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and ausculation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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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.
