Jane Goodall Quotes

I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.

Jane Goodall

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• The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

  

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• And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

  

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• It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

  

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• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

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• I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

  

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• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

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• I thrive on having support around me, even if they are not actively doing something. I feel happier, more confident.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • Writing
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  • Started

• You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Game

• I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

  

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• Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by 'engineers of the soul.'

  

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• Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  

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• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  

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• Some things fail and others succeed. Well, then you get quite desperate, and you think: 'I am going to work and work and I'm not going to have any failures.' But then you find out that failures are inevitable; you can't even draw a straight line, you know that.

  

  Agnes Martin
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• Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
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  • Heart
  • American

• My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.

  

  Alice Ripley
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• The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
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  • Tax

• There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

  

  Charles de Lint

• Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

  

  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan
  • Art
  • Lost
  • Dying

• Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Freedom
  • Sin
  • Illusion

• I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.

  

  Jane Goodall