David Attenborough Quotes

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

David Attenborough

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I never got a degree; I just started writing.

Joe R. Lansdale

WritingNeverDegreeStartedJust

You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.

Jenny Lewis

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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

John Guare

ComedyTragedyCoreAvoiding

People who have theater or sketch-comedy backgrounds seem to be more, you know, our speed. Like Amy Poehler and Will Arnett - we double date.

Megan Mullally

PeopleSpeedYouKnowWillMore

I don't understand why people take Beyonce so seriously. You don't feel like there's a living, breathing person. It's not flesh and blood. It's just flesh and flesh.

Robert Hilburn

PeopleFeelYouPersonLivingWhy

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.

Rodney Carrington

TodayThinkInternetYouChannels

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

Michael Shannon

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I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

Louis Freeh

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Obama had to save the banks, sure, but he didn't have to save the bankers and the shareholders and the bondholders. We broke the rules of capitalism in order to save those at the top - as we always do.

Joseph Stiglitz

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To restart a brand, you have to make people forget what it was.

Jonathan Anderson

PeopleBrandYouForgetMake

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

Dick Cheney

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America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

Dennis Miller

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