Peter Beard Quotes

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

Peter Beard

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• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Age
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• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • World
  • Today
  • Problem

• I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • Character
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• Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • American
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• It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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  • Office

• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
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• Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
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• Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Believe
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• I'm not a negative person.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Person
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• I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Wish

• My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Father
  • Free
  • Best

• I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.

  

  Larry King
  • Know
  • Question
  • Questions

• All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Real
  • Air

• Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.

  

  Quintilian

• I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Action
  • Painting

• Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • High
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• I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Confidence

• One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Character
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• Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

  

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  • Attitude
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• Everyone wants to start a business in their garage - they think it's sexy - but when you actually sit as a 30-year-old in a garage, it's not so sexy.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • Business
  • Sexy

• There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Die
  • Tradition
  • Elephant

• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • People
  • Dog
  • Lion

• If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Progress
  • Elephant
  • Good Companion

• I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

  

  Peter Beard
  • Lion
  • Elephant