David Bellamy Quotes
What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.
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No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
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I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man.
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What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.
