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" A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike. "
Jeffrey Kluger
" And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly. "
Tracy Morgan
" As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. "
Joseph B. Wirthlin
" Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light. "
Ben Dolnick
" Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans? "
Sylvia Earle
" Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it. "
Pia Zadora
" David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly. "
Stephen Stills
" Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. "
Annie Besant
" Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I've done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she's 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters. "
Ashley Bell
" Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now. "
Tim Walker
" Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. "
Lynn Margulis
" Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. "
Drew Barrymore
" Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. "
Muhammad Ali
" Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance. "
Rose Leslie
" Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
" Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen. "
B. D. Wong
" His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. "
Ernest Hemingway
" I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name. "
John le Carre
" I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.' "
Emmanuelle Seigner
" I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. "
Zhuangzi
" I don't do the media because of 'Woo-woo, Julia Butterfly,' as I call it. I'm not into promoting me. I'm into talking about why I've done what I've done, why I continue to do this work and why other people should care. "
Julia Butterfly Hill
" I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly. "
Eliza Doolittle
" I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? "
Zhuangzi
" I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me? "
Mirai Nagasu
" If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station. "
Adam Carolla
" I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. "
Gillian Flynn
" I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry. "
Hope Solo
" I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun. "
Carine Roitfeld
" I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be able to race every single race, and day after day as well. "
Sophie Pascoe
" I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on! "
Robert Plant
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