Wade Davis Quotes
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Health food makes me sick.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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I love Bane. I love the Joker. I love Batman.
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I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.
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Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.
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What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
