James Howard Kunstler Quotes
American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.James Howard Kunstler
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
Anton Zaslavski -
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
Finn Jones -
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
Iris Chang -
Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
Viktor Orban -
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Ed Asner -
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
Rachael Taylor
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
P. J. Harvey -
I was tested against the best.
Rafael dos Anjos -
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman -
You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
Rand Paul -
Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
Ja Rule -
I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.
T. C. Boyle
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
Yolandi Visser -
Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
Sam Yagan -
I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
Nate Powell -
'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
Jack Keane -
I don't mind dating younger men now.
Jackee Harry
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
Rajiv Gandhi -
It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
Laura Bell Bundy -
The American people have been kicked in the teeth by unfair trade for decades.
Peter Navarro -
To suggest the President of the United States and the head of the free world - the man who is changing the world - is being manipulated by Mitch McConnell is insulting to the president; it's absolutely insulting.
Luther Strange -
American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.
James Howard Kunstler