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" What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it. "
David Attenborough
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" Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. "
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" The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary. "
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" Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. "
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" I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time. "
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" London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. "
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