Jane Goodall Quotes
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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.
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I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
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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.
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.
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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.
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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.
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Indeed, even this last moment will be recognized like the rest, at least, be just beginning to be so.
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I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped.
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If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.
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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
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I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.
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I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.
