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"Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad."
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"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could."
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"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
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"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."
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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
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"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
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"The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring."
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"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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"And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me."
Writing
"There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation."
Life
"When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom."
Work
"Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate."
People
"When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless."
Living
"I just feed off the energy of the audience."
Energy
"I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently."
Life
"I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter."
People
"I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there."
First
"I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me."
Reading
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