L. David Mech Quotes
If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
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You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.
