Desmond Morris Quotes
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
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No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.
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I pride myself on being tragically uncool.
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I guess that is my biggest fear, sort of worrying about the fact that I keep getting more insecure as time goes on rather than feeling more grand with each turn. I feel more and more afraid. When I get my picture taken, I'm convinced it's because I must look terrible and they're going to put it in US Weekly as a joke.
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The only other mammalian carnivores that take outsized prey are lions, hyenas, wolves, and African wild dogs. Each... has an exceptionally advanced social life, prominently featuring the pursuit of prey in coordinated packs.
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Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
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It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
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I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.
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For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.
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More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.
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I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
