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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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.
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From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?
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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?
