I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.


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I'm not in politics.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera wavi...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind t...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I f...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfis...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of al...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH
Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES
Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON
Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA
I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH
If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON
I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON
'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON
It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON
I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON
The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON
They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON
There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON
The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON
You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON
It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON
And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON
God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON
About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON
Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR
You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR
Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR
You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR
No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR
Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR
But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR