David Suzuki Quotes

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

David Suzuki

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EyesChildWorldSeeThroughBeing

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

Melissa Rosenberg

GreatMoneyVoiceStoryThinking

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Anatoly Karpov

LifeMy LifeChess

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

Robert M. Gates

ChangeBusinessYouLeadOutSeen

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Andy Partridge

FeltTouringContinuousPressured

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Trip Adler

PersistenceSucceedThinkYouNew

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

Tom Hardy

BeautifulPeopleEndLongYouLook

Herbert Hoover was a man of genuine, fine character, but he lacked practical political sense. And he couldn't bend and shift and change with the requirements of the time. And he was a ruined President, because he was such a, I think, stiff-backed ideologue. And I think that speaks volumes about his character.

Robert Dallek

ChangeCharacterTimeManThink

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Michael Shermer

GroupTrueReasonOutIndividual

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

Athol Fugard

PeoplePoliticalYouSituationGet

I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.

Alice Waters

RelationshipFoodPeopleThinkYou

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

DoorStrongFriendsMoreBoxBoth

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

LifePatienceStrongMeaningManly

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