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.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Family
  • You
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Father
  • Forever
  • Dance

• 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.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• 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.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Fight

• If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Party

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Society
  • Most

• 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.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • Think
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Speak
  • First
  • Face

• I am much more interested in the process than results.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Process
  • Results
  • Interested

• In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Age
  • Earth

• We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Want
  • Consequences
  • Repeat

• I never really had a strong accent.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Really

• I feel happy to terrify kids.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Crazy
  • Positive
  • Tennis

• A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Hand
  • Pure
  • Brainy

• I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.

  

  Deborah Wiles
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  

  Karen Morley
  • King
  • Popular
  • Daily

• However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

  

  Dick Thornburgh
  • Law

• For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Long
  • Chance
  • Vengeance

• Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Care
  • Flying
  • Balloon

• Environmentalism has failed.

  

  David Suzuki