The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
Madeleine Albright
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I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.
John Hurt
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My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.
Tony La Russa
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Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.
Michael Shannon
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Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.
Christopher Hitchens
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I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
Anthony Hopkins
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I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.
Tinie Tempah
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There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.
Mark Shand
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There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.
Gus Van Sant
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We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
David Brin
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I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.
Wilbur Smith
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An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.
Isabella Bird
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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
Jackie Kennedy
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Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
Matthew Henry
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I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
Tom Hardy
ManElephantYouWillResponsible
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
Mira Nair
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Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.
Chris Noth
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Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
Audrey Meadows
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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward
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Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
Lindsey Graham
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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
Herb Caen
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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
Creighton Abrams
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
Vincent Cassel
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My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.
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