Jane Goodall Quotes

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

Jane Goodall

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

  

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• Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

  

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• My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

  

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• Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage.

  

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

  

  Jane Goodall