Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

If I'm out shopping and someone talks to me, I get startled, as I'm not a natural celebrity.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.

If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.

If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because the trait has effect E, a natural hypothesis to consider is that T evolved in the lineage leading to those current organisms because T had effect E. This hypothesis is "natural," but it often isn't true!

If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.

If you ask me:"An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. (...) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

If you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it.

If you look at the natural world, really look at it, it's always magical.

If you had always been free to learn, you would follow your natural tendency to find out as fully as possible about the things that interest you, cars or stars. We are born with what they call "love of learning

If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.

I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

I guess creepy comes natural to me - I hate to say that.

I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.

I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music, disco and house. It feels very natural. My rhythm growing up on hip-hop and R&B was cool, fresh, and I feel comfortable with it.

I guess the subject of race is so natural to me I never think of it as hefty. It's something I talk about and joke about and discuss with my loved ones every day of my life.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick

I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

I have a natural fear of anything that feels like celebrating my own past to an extent that doesn't allow me to continue to look forward. I don't know psychologically why it is, but I get a little uncomfortable with nostalgia.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

I hated the blog hype and how fast everything was happening. It didn't feel natural to me. But at the same time, what's more natural than thousands of people sharing your music because they just really like it?

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

I have a natural swagger.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

I have no natural charisma or personality, really.

I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.