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Dian Fossey Quotes

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.

Dian Fossey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 16, 1932 - December 26, 1985

Topics

Angel Uncle Group Over Contact Side

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Jim Bakker

God Alone Fake You Know

When you become an actor, at some point you look for something that brings you back to your roots. You find something that people around your neighborhood can relate to. People that you're close with can relate to.

Mekhi Phifer

People Roots You Look Back Find

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.

Studs Terkel

Society Someone You Act Democratic

Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.

Marvin Hagler

Me Sugar Boxing Reason Give Me Give

I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

Michael Socha

Style Born Hip-Hop Casual Lived Mix

Tons of musicians who I love are imprisoned by their identity. That can be totally fine because they are so amazing in their technique, but for me, I'm a little too restless for that.

Jason Moran

Love Identity Amazing Me Musicians

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Joseph Rotblat

Life Science My Life Humanity Danger

It's weird to make new friends, but we're three seasons in with 'The Exes,' and now it feels a lot like 'Scrubs,' where I'm very lucky because I get to work people like Wayne Knight, who I really like.

Donald Faison

Work People Weird Friends Seasons

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Change People Think You Know Mean

I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.

Chuck Close

Life Work Nature Myself Situation

We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.

Brene Brown

People Judge Doing Shame Where Who

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

Armand Assante

Enough Hollywood Never Drum Big