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  • My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.' -- Steffi Graf
  • I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it! -- Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic. -- Tracy Morgan
  • I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. I'm into astronomy and love to learn about new facts. -- Sonu Nigam
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed secret places, such as the Challenger Deep, which today lure hi-tech adventurers like Richard Branson and James Cameron, will undoubtedly provide welcome fodder for 'National Geographic.' -- Seth Shostak
  • I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. -- Galen Rowell
  • My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.' -- Joseph Murray
  • I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' -- Ridley Scott
  • Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic. -- Sam Abell
  • My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic. -- Sergio Aragones
  • A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  • You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit -- Mary Kay Andrews
  • Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I. -- Peter Menzel
  • It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist. -- Sarah Parcak
  • For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit. -- Edward Bernays
  • In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff. -- Big Sean
  • 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
  • National Geographic has awesome stuff. I like Court TV. Sometimes I'll watch Reality Mix because they have some interesting stuff on that. -- Erik Estrada
  • It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time. -- Sam Abell
  • 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
  • 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
  • My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that. -- Sam Abell
  • [Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing. -- Martin Nolan
  • 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
  • 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
  • I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that help us digest food. These are non-human creatures. -- Will Hobbs
  • It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level. -- Sam Abell
  • Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing. -- Geoffrey Batchen
  • I don't watch TV dramas. I watch ESPN, HBO boxing, National Geographic Channel and I kind of like to get some DVDs, movies that I haven't seen and I just pop them in. -- Dominic Purcell
  • 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
  • I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist. -- Craig Horner
  • 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
  • I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out. -- Tom Weston-Jones
  • I have photographed sharks in waters around the globe, and I always want more and yearn to peer deeper into their world. To feed my passion and to raise awareness, I developed a story about sharks for 'National Geographic' magazine. -- Brian Skerry
  • I think that it's workshops, honestly, that have kept me keen about photography, and about my photography. My career as a workshop photographer came while I was at the Geographic in the late 70's, and has continued consistently since then. -- Sam Abell
  • The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry.Apart from the increased travel, I won't let anything interfere with writing poetry. -- J. Patrick Lewis
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards -- Galen
  • Though Geographic didn't publish that photo in the story that it was done for, "The Life of Charlie Russell," a cowboy artist in Montana. But later, maybe a year and a half ago, they named it one of the 50 greatest pictures ever made at National Geographic. -- Sam Abell
  • I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture. -- Djimon Hounsou
  • I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it. -- Sam Abell
  • I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had worked on that campaign. Ernst Haas had done the early photography, and I knew him. There's a lore in photography about that campaign, and I was curious. -- Sam Abell
  • In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world. -- Wangechi Mutu
  • Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. -- David Hilbert
  • I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach. -- Amber Tamblyn
  • The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances. -- Ella Maillart
  • I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq. -- Ahmed Chalabi
  • The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression. -- George Will
  • If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social. -- William Weld
  • The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political. -- Peter Guber
  • Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. -- Kathleen Blanco
  • People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other. -- James Howard Kunstler
  • When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all. -- Chris Hadfield
  • There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed. -- John Negroponte
  • 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
  • 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
  • Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad. -- Ginni Rometty
  • I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy. -- Ken Jennings
  • Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies. -- Joe Mansueto
  • Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being. -- Robert Creeley
  • People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library. -- Tom Peters
  • Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders. -- Nick Clooney
  • The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one. -- Wendell Willkie
  • The Free People brand plans to drive growth on three different fronts: product expansion, geographic expansion and improved marketing. -- Richard Hayne
  • I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach -- Amber Tamblyn
  • My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people. -- Lily Yeh
  • Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
  • Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant. -- Jack Welch
  • A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't. -- Joe Manchin
  • 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
  • You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other. -- Bashar al-Assad
  • Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic. -- Jeffrey Deitch
  • According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map. However 10 out of 10 Mexicans could find the U.S. without a map. -- Jay Leno
  • Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time -- Tracy Kidder
  • Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time. -- Tracy Kidder
  • I believe that Detroit has a terrific geographic position. It still is a hub of one of the most important industries in the world. There's incredible engineering and other talent. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
  • If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social. -- William Weld
  • Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. -- Diane Wakoski
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  • I believe in geographic cures - they allow you to throw all your cards in the air and see where they land, then pick them back up and deal them again. -- Jerri Nielsen
  • Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence. -- Richard Florida
  • I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US. -- Christopher Michael Cillizza
  • There's been a lot of guys that come out of Texas who have made it really big. So it's not a geographic thing, it's a how hard are you willing to work for it. -- Gabriel Iglesias
  • Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty -- Kathleen Blanco
  • China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. -- Andrea Jung
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