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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a film in Nairobi, Kenya called 'The Last Elephant,' with John Lithgow, Isabella Rosallini, and James Earl Jones. So I was in seventh heaven, alright? About a year later I get a call from my agent and he says they want to see you for this project called Candyman. I thought he was joking so I hung up.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to have an elephant in the room. There's nothing more helpful than something everybody's thinking about.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And we hang out in our PJs on Christmas Day.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many African American champions have there been over the course of WWE's history? It's something that was the elephant in the room. Nobody wanted to talk about it, but it was important for us to address it.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea that I'm a one-trick pony, even if I am! No matter what else I do, I have to make sure that 'Elephant' isn't Tame Impala's biggest song anywhere.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
- Acting Classes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
- Lamb
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.
- Clockwork
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.
- Glands
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.
- Charity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apart from using it to spread the word about my translation company Blue Elephant and to talk to fans, I find social media an extremely powerful forum for charity.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started a company in 2005 for language services called Blue Elephant. We handle translation and interpretation services in over 120 languages.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to fight in the UFC, you've got to realize that you are just an elephant in the circus. As soon as you ask for more peanuts, you have to go find a different circus.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That's one of the biggest challenges.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.
- Fiddle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been the girl who can't sit on her hands. If there's a pink elephant in the room, I'll identify it and say it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020