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• Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

  Michael Koryta

  Skulls, Musical, Joining

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• The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

  Rob Marshall

  White, Brilliant, Bigs

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• Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass transport; it is irresponsibility. The loss of an acre of forest every second, the mass slaughter of elephants for their ivory, the extinction of entire species of plants, insects and animals all over the world is not something that "just happens" because there are more of us human beings. It happens because the race of ruling beings put in charge has almost wholly lost its sense of stewardship. We have turned away from God.

  Winkie Pratney

  Loss, Animal, Race

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• To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Home, Science

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• For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Zero, Boys

  "Eddie Izzard, Force Of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.

  John Speed

  Brother, Knives, Black

  John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Guess who has PE first hour? This is so unfair. I start the day off perspiring like an elephant in heat. Don't the people who make up our schedule understand body odor? Don't they understand frizzy hair? ~Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, People, Odor

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Religious, War, Ignorance

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.261

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• ...the elephant smoked too much.

  Victor Borge

  Music, Too Much

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• Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Employers, Ganging Up

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Impact, Worry, Alchemist

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• What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.

  Doug Stanhope

  Jobs, Men, Waiting

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• I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Sorry, Moving, Cat

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• Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Wise, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.

  James Cameron

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  White, Drs, Balls

  Carlo M. Cipolla (1970). “European culture and overseas expansion”

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• Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Snakes, Grace, Enthusiasm

  Carol Emshwiller (2004). “Carmen Dog”, p.158, Small Beer Press

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• Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Agility, Height

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.186, Routledge

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• In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

  Freeman Dyson

  Cutting, Agreement, Numbers

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

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• There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember, the United States would fit in Africa three times over and there would still be space. That's how big Africa is.

  Patrick Bergin

  Thinking, Space, United States

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet." We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.

  Patrick Bergin

  Beautiful, Hurt, New York

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• Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we're actually happy.

  Aldis Hodge

  Fun, Rooms, Topics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

  John Amaechi

  Gestation Period, Years, People

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

  David Crosby

  Play, Water, Watches

  "David Crosby answers our 11 questions". Interview with Corbin Reiff, music.avclub.com. March 18, 2016.

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• Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you. For most of us, it's the frequent, small and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern.

  Darren Hardy

  Things In Life, Choices, Mosquitoes

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.31, Hachette UK

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