National Geographic Quotes

• I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

  Erma Bombeck

  Clothes, Lucky, Realizing

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• My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

  Sergio Aragones

  Source, Collections

  Q&As, sergioaragones.com.

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• The real magic in National Geographic isn't how much money they have left at the end of the year. It's the fact that through their overall focus they are reaching hundreds of millions of people and educating people about the world. It just happens to be done in a business-oriented kind of way that is more sustainable.

  Steve Case

  Business, Real, Years

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• For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.

  Edward Bernays

  Reason

  "The Father of Spin". Book by Larry Tye, p. 102, 1998.

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• I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Humor, Thinking, Lasts

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• My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

  Steffi Graf

  Dream, Photographer, Bigs

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• You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

  Tracy Morgan

  Watches, Study

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• National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'

  Bjork

  Sharks, Lemurs, Labels

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 29, 2011.

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• When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.

  Sylvia Earle

  Writing, Technology, People

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• We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

  Ameen Rihani

  Sublime, Unity, Deeds

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• I have the mohawk,even though people still call it the mohawk I say "I don't wanna be disrespectful to the Mohican Indians but there is a tribe in Africa called the Mandinka warriors." They're in the west coast of Africa in the country of Mali.I was reading National Geographic Magazine back in 1977, and I saw the warrior standing there with his spear and his beads around his neck and whatnot and the stuff on his ankles. That was what gave me the idea, I said "Wow, let me bring respect to them," so basically what I wear is called a Mandinka cut.

  Mr. T

  Country, Reading, Warrior

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Blood, Guy, Drug

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• You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Issues, Austin, Fit

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• America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Running, America, Play

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The Democrats continue to snipe at Bush. They'll never give it up to him. You know Teddy Kennedy and Tom Daschle pick more nits than a father and son spider monkey team who know they're being followed by a National Geographic film crew.

  Dennis Miller

  Father, Team, Son

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• My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.

  Dudley R. Herschbach

  Stars, Science, Night

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• I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting What if? will pop into my head.

  James Rollins

  Reading, Interesting, What If

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• It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

  Alexander McQueen

  Ideas, Vision, World

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• I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Teacher, Zebras

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Play, Skulls, People

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. Im into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

  Sonu Nigam

  Phones, Facts, And Love

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• I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.

  James Patterson

  Growing Up, Ocean, Sea

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• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  Sam Abell

  Believe, Doors, Parent

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Film, Used

  "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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• Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol' Frankie's brows quirked. "You wield sarcasm, madam, as well as a master swordsman does." "Gee, thanks." I smiled at him and batted my lashes. Quit flirting . Patrick flicked the command into my head. He sounded half-annoyed, half-amused. I'm not flirting. Quit being cute and likeable. An impossible request. I've always been too adorable for words.

  Michele Bardsley

  Cute, Sarcasm, Flirting

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.107, Penguin

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