David Suzuki Quotes

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

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• I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Day
  • Media

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I'm interested in playing, not working.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Working
  • Playing
  • Interested

• I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Work
  • History

• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Best

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

  Quintilian
  • Evil
  • Broken
  • Habits

• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Better
  • Morality

• When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
  • City
  • Myself

• I love trying new restaurants.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Trying
  • Love
  • New

• I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Great
  • Music
  • Think

• I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Think
  • Know
  • Poetry

• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Love
  • Kids

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People

• You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Matter
  • Rich

• I don't aim to offend.

  

  Billy Connolly

• I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.

  

  Ian Holloway
  • Up
  • Car
  • Journey

• Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • May
  • Education