David Suzuki Quotes
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.
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Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.
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Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?
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People think that every day we pass monumental legislation. Oftentimes, the most important thing that you have done that day is help a family with a visa.
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
