David Suzuki Quotes
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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I never really had a strong accent.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.
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No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.
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I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
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Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
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Environmentalism has failed.
