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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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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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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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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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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Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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I wanted to be able to say I was a Marine.
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I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
