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Tag Name "Elephants" (265)

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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
Desmond Tutu
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Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
Clarence Day
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Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.
Merlin Mann
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But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
Jeffrey Eugenides
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
Ted Turner
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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Trudeau
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Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world’s most emotionally human land mammal.
Daphne Sheldrick
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When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
Randy Pausch
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I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.
Lisa Kleypas
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Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.
James Lee
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I do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
Victor Borge
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I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.
Marion Davies
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The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk strong and yet flexible and soft.
George Balanchine
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We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
Graydon Carter
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What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
Plutarch
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When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.
T. Boone Pickens
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
Ingrid Newkirk
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They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?
Adam Rex
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We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.
John F. Kennedy
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I have a face like the behind of an elephant.
Charles Laughton
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When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, Do you have elephants on the road? Nobody is saying that today.
Rahul Gandhi
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My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
Steven Wright
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Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant
Michael Basman
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