The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?


David Attenborough

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decision-making.
Stand by your choices
and never look back.
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your commitment to them.
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RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the UK and in the United States for over 40 years.
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
It's a most unwelcome distraction. This is the third one in five or six years ... and it's been foun...
TIM ATTENBOROUGH
I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably t...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effe...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
I know Pandit Ravi Shankar was very upset with me, as I did not use his compositions in 'Gandhi....
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
I adore my family; they are my joy. However, I am committed to my work. If, on a Saturday morning wh...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the a...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven&#...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD
In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY
I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY
People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY
Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY
The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE
The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE
There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE