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Peter Beard Quotes

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 22, 1938

Topics

Lion Elephant Trouble Drink Buy Con

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Competition Choice Student Study

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

Father Book End Never Up He

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Fighting Right Things Stardust Did

Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cost a lot of money because there just aren't that many of them. The value of sports has appreciated because it's the only thing that people have to watch live.

Live Sports Money Value People Will

It might sound strange to describe New Yorkers as insecure when they delight so much in the cult of success. The display of wealth here, especially new wealth, is indeed wonderfully frank, from the super-long limousines which clog up the roads to the voluptuous fur coats that adorn both men and women.

Success Women Roads Men Wealth New

I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.

Writing Feel Because I Feel Like

Deadpool was intended, as Cable was, to be tied into Wolverine's history.

History Wolverine Tied Cable

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

Great Man Purpose Conflict Seeds

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

Rudolph A. Marcus

Life Pause Little Only Would Easier

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

Michael Nielsen

Science Potential Speed Discovery Up

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

Family Tree Turn Out Going Deeply

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

Music People Think Meaning True

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