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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Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.
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I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."
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Fitness of a top-class squash player is very important, and talent only can't do the job. They have to get training regularly for at least eight hours a day so that they could put some good show in a two-hour match.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
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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?
