Michael Leunig Quotes

Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky.

Michael Leunig

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LifeNatureWaterSweetControl

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

Joan D. Vinge

LifeViewYouKindHumanStudying

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

ChangeWorldFinancialBehaviorWall

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.

John Oates

WorldKnowPointGoingLastFar

I'm not one of these guys who says, Now I'm on a really hot show, better quit soon before I get labeled. That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard.

Jeff Probst

BetterNowRidiculousQuitHotGet

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

John Spencer

FutureTechnologyResearchWorldRat

I'm obsessed with wool.

Sigrid

WoolObsessed

I have some help on tweeting.

Ron Paul

HelpTweetingSome

Growing up, I would have to say I loved 'Peter Pan' because I was fascinated by Captain Hook; I was fascinated by Hans Conried, who was an actor on screen and also a theatrical and television actor.

Jonathan Freeman

Growing UpLovedTelevisionGrowing

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Douglas William Jerrold

SportsOnlyAthleticEverMastered

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Augustus Hare

GoodMenThinkBadMoreAct

I still feel, when I meet actresses, no matter how high-profile they are, that they are starved for good roles.

Susanna Fogel

GoodFeelMeetMatterStillHow

I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.

Peter Capaldi

LovePeopleNightStoryInteresting

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