"The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh."

-- Doug Peacock

#Animal Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.”
“When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, "What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?"”
“I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It isn't that I play favorites, it's just that dogs are needier than other pets. Leave a dog alone for very long and it'll start going a little nuts. Cats, on the other hand, try to give you the impression that they didn't even notice you were gone. Oh, were you out? they'll say, I didn't notice. Then they'll raise their tails to show you their little puckered anuses and walk away.”
“I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.”
“From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.”
“My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.”
“I think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped.”

Source : "Sofia Vergara On David Beckham Tom Cruise The Smurfs Modern Family Emmys". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. July 19, 2011.
“When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.”

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