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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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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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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The lesson of that victory was that Soviet citizens must still heed Lenin's warning of 1921
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.
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If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.
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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.
