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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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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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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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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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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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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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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You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
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It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.
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The way to write well is to live intensely.
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Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.
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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?
