Gerald Durrell Quotes
Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.
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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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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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Fandom is amazing.
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
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Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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I do not want to belittle or be indifferent to the insults to our prophet (pbuh). I denounce insulting our prophet and announce that my heart is filled with his love. Yet, I refuse that his position should be employed for ignoble political gains. However, I protest being used as a tool.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
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I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.
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Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
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The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and 'it depends' is almost always the right answer in any big question.
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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.
