Daphne Sheldrick Quotes
I doubt whether my great-grandchildren will actually be able to see wild elephants living a normal life, they are going very rapidly, one every 15 minutes.
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I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.
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When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.
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Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
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The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.
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I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
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It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.
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Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that seek to respect and protect the rights of all cadets -- not just those adhering to majority religious beliefs.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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We don't have a hundred years to fix climate change. We don't have a hundred years to wait until we've built all these bridges and rapport and scientific understanding and so on and so forth. We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.
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I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.
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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
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Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.
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May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
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Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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Don't get me started on critics.
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An election is just a romance writ large, with an entire community, rather than a single woman, as the object of one's pursuit.
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I doubt whether my great-grandchildren will actually be able to see wild elephants living a normal life, they are going very rapidly, one every 15 minutes.
