Stella Benson Quotes
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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Man has been adjudged a social animal.
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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(The Eurozone) resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!
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Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.
