David Sobel Quotes
What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.
Quotes to Explore
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
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The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
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I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.
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What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.
