David Suzuki Quotes
If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
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The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
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How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.
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The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
