Jane Goodall Quotes

Animals tell us something. If the animals have suffered this way from GMOs, potentially for us, let’s listen to what they’re telling us. Let’s take heed.

Jane Goodall

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• Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• My baby is the joy in my life.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Baby

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Personality
  • Smiling

• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Energy
  • Dependent
  • Peninsula

• One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• I am a fiscal conservative.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Conservative
  • Fiscal

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Light
  • Responsibility

• I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Me
  • Lie

• It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • World
  • Me
  • Sad

• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Better
  • Apple

• There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Like
  • Short
  • Twitter

• Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Writing
  • Internet
  • Alcohol

• I've never taken myself too seriously.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Myself
  • Taken
  • Never

• They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Different
  • Talent
  • Texas

• As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Director

• Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

  

  Edith Schaeffer

• I do think corporations should pay their tax.

  

  Leo Varadkar

• Americans have much less holiday, so for them, four or five days away is like a mini vacation, but for us, it's just a long weekend. In Europe, one takes time off more casually.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Time
  • Long
  • Holiday

• Animals tell us something. If the animals have suffered this way from GMOs, potentially for us, let’s listen to what they’re telling us. Let’s take heed.

  

  Jane Goodall