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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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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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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God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
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The business I’ve found myself in for my adult life, it requires a certain amount of stereotyping. It’s just the nature of the beast. You have a limited amount of time to tell a story; in particular on camera. So you want the visual information there to provide a certain amount of background. People that look a certain way are cast in certain roles.
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I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!
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Environmentalism has failed.
