Jane Goodall Quotes
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
Quotes to Explore
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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I still believe heavily that we have to be careful about having this ego and hubris as a successful corporation, that we should do it all. Because then I think we start to fail our customers and we're too focused on taking over the world.
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I'm bad; I wear trainers with everything: with a dress, skirts, all of that.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.
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More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
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There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.
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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
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I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.
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I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.
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Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
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Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
