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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.
Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.
In 1999, NATO did impose a no-fly zone in Kosovo without seeking a U.N. resolution to carry out air strikes on Serbian forces.
Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.
Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.
Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is he’s called the Stig.
I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.
Contrary to what the Americans frequently reiterated, al-Qaeda did not have any relationship with Saddam Hussein or his regime.
I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.
If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.
They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.
There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama?
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right
Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living.
Honestly, the challenge about being a mom is when something goes wrong - someone's sick, getting someone to doctor's appointments.
Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.
Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.
Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
Fully fund the construction of a wall on our southern border. Don't worry about it. Remember, I said Mexico is paying for the wall.
Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley.
Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007's psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love.
Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign-born Arab hijackers, many assume that all terrorists who attack the West are foreigners.
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those.
I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.
I think anybody who is interested in keeping their money safe from the criminal banking system would want gold, silver, and Bitcoin.
What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.
[on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car.
9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.
I used to draw comics a lot. I was obsessed with 'The Young Ones,' and was massively into video games, although I was no good at them.
Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you've got the Ebola virus and you're about to sneeze.
Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.
Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?
There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.
I have a dream! Someday I'll show my children a map. I will tell them, 'Mommy was here and here and there and there.' That's my dream.
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.