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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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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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.
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Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
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I'm one of those guys: I'm out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I'm done, hopefully there's nothing wrong with you; I'm hoping that you're okay.
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It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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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.
