"My first occupation was to map the country."

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Source : John Hanning Speke (2015). “Source of the Nile”, p.17, Amberley Publishing Limited

John Hanning Speke

#Country Quotes #Maps Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“The Nazis were seldom dumb and never funny.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.”
“Do not go gentle into that good night.”

Source : "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)
“I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as comedy pieces in the vein of performance monologue, such as you might get with Richard Pryor, or Lenny Bruce, or George Carlin. So I don't feel vulnerable because I know the line of demarcation between "Writer Kevin" and "Narrative Kevin."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.”

Source : Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.221, Penguin
“Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.”
“The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

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