Steve Irwin (Stephen Robert Irwin) Quotes
When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.
