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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation. ↗

— David Attenborough

#any #conclusion #driven #generation #genes

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#care #i #i do #only #serves

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#objects #poet #professional #verbal

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#complicated #how #i #know #me

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#fact #gratifying #in fact #me #method

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#consumer #gun #guns #make #manufacturer

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#because #danger #emergency #event #feel

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#agree #aspects #even #going #humorous

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#forces #i #i believe #i believe the #i love