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I'm so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy.
Dave Rubin
Gay
Marriage
Gay Marriage
Favor
Married
Guy
Even
I'm not even proud to say this, but I've never voted for a Republican in my entire life.
Dave Rubin
Life
Say
Entire
Entire Life
Never
Voted
Proud
Republican
Even
I think the media has portrayed conservatives as these cold, heartless people who want poor people to die and let half the population starve and all this. They've done that so effectively because they've owned the narrative for so long.
Dave Rubin
People
Long
Half
Think
Cold
Starve
Conservatives
Because
Narrative
Effectively
Heartless
Die
Owned
Done
Want
Poor
Poor People
Who
Population
Media
Portrayed
I believe the regressive Left - the group of people who use illiberal tactics to silence those defending liberal principles - to be the Left's version of the Tea Party.
Dave Rubin
Silence
People
Party
Tea
Group
Believe
Liberal
Those
Tactics
Principles
Version
Left
Tea Party
Use
Who
Defending
I remember thinking Democrats and liberals were the good guys. They cared about the little guy. They cared about poor people. They cared about minorities.
Dave Rubin
Good
People
Remember
Thinking
Liberals
Minorities
About
Guy
Guys
Democrats
Were
Little
Poor
Poor People
Cared
Good Guys
The terms 'progressive' and 'liberal' have virtually nothing to do with each other anymore. And if you are a classical liberal, you certainly aren't a leftist.
Dave Rubin
You
Nothing
Other
Liberal
Progressive
Virtually
Classical
Terms
Leftist
Anymore
Certainly
Each
The one and only thing that every comic agrees on is that you do not steal jokes.
Dave Rubin
You
Jokes
Every
Only
Steal
Comic
Agree
Thing
Cable news is force-feeding you an endless back and forth of pundits who consistently get everything wrong, while at the same time, they mask their opinions as facts and argue about the endless minutia of a broken Washington, D.C., instead of arming you with real knowledge and new ideas.
Dave Rubin
Time
News
Broken
Knowledge
You
Mask
Back
Everything
Pundits
Consistently
About
Argue
Facts
Cable
Wrong
Instead
New
Ideas
Opinions
New Ideas
Real
Real Knowledge
Get
Same
Endless
Same Time
While
Forth
Who
Washington
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
David Attenborough
Country
Settle
Wild
Extraordinary
Unless
Citizens
See
Proportion
Never
Dawn
Come
Pigeon
Dusk
Which
Mean
Them
Might
Really
Your
Large
Creature
Near
Thing
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
David Attenborough
Time
Good
Me
Good Time
Too
Guilty
Having
Having A Good Time
Feel
Well
Makes
How
Very
Which
English
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
David Attenborough
Beautiful
Natural
People
Wonderful
World
Amazing
Valuable
Important
Pleasure
Must
Feel
Amazement
Natural World
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
David Attenborough
Born
More
He
Five
Than
Move
Which
Grandfather
Miles
Who
Luckier
Village
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
David Attenborough
You
Few
Nothing
About
Unchanged
Doing
Years
Very
Survived
Accuse
Human
Being
Size
Human Beings
Which
Little
Beings
Species
Million
Million Years
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
David Attenborough
Time
Home
Me
Travel
Think
Tells
Nobody
Major
Psychological
Element
Ever
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
David Attenborough
You
People
Think
Television
About
Know
Terrible
Terrible Thing
Talking
Because
Appear
Actually
Thing
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
David Attenborough
Hope
Me
Situation
Birth
Give
Give Me
Rates
Rising
Economic
Economic Situation
None
Climate
Lot
Optimistic
Reason
Things
You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
David Attenborough
Time
You
People
Steer
Misleading
Between
Course
Same
Same Time
Them
Appalling
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
David Attenborough
You
Animal
People
Waving
About
More
Between
Arms
Go
Camera
Less
Standing
Need
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
David Attenborough
Music
Good
Day
Me
You
World
Suits
Somewhere
Think
Say
Good Music
London
Some
Paris
Week
Greatest
Climate
Go
Hear
Any
Going
Vienna
Serious
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
David Attenborough
You
Library
World
Everything
Fine
London
Institutions
Greatest
Got
Want
Really
British
Museums
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
David Attenborough
You
Hell
Back
Small
Like
Beyond
Singapore
Sheds
Got
Tin
Bangkok
Getting
Just
Places
Sweat
Series
I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
David Attenborough
You
Approve
Bad
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
David Attenborough
History
You
Travel
Natural
Animals
Important
Bit
Like
Look
Go
Order
Natural History
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
David Attenborough
History
Natural
Old
Own
Programmes
My Own
Fact
Factual
Vehicles
Days
Opinion
Opinions
Were
Old Days
Natural History
Them
Producers
Producing
Use
Basic
Cardinal
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
David Attenborough
Government
Monopoly
Broadcaster
Television
License
Only
Operated
Course
Same
Which
Grant
Actually
Started
Britain
It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.
David Attenborough
Responsibility
Programs
Broad
Would
Provide
Regarded
Hole
Which
Interest
Then
Fill
Spectrum
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