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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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• In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Shining, Awkward, Fool

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• I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

  Aziz Ansari

  Rooms, Walks, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation/ The Fight" (Season 3, Episode 13), 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, America, Trying

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• Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg strapped up behind me and I am a little older now. It was all marvelous, though. He [Bong Joon-ho] is one of the most fabulous directors in the world.

  John Hurt

  Couple, Men, Fabulous

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign your life away for seven years...well, maybe I would never have made 'Sailcloth.'

  John Hurt

  Men, Seven Years, Television

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Mother, Children, Writing

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

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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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• 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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• My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

  Yaya Toure

  Rhinos, Etc, Wildlife

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.

  Yaya Toure

  Worry, Poaching, Existence

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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