George Monbiot Quotes
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.George Monbiot
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Laura Donnelly -
Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
Barbara Broccoli -
Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
R. Kelly -
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
Nate Silver -
We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our failures humanise us, and they connect us to one another.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
Edmund White -
This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
Indira Gandhi -
I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
Ted Yoho -
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
Ken Adam -
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Frank Herbert -
I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.
Katie Taylor
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I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.
Ben Shahn -
What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
Benny Anderson -
It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.
Lianne La Havas -
I was always into sports, and as a sportsperson, you need to be fit to survive and play from start to finish.
Disha Patani -
I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.
Ari Graynor -
A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
Penn Jillette
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I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.
Rod Stewart -
I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.
Kamala Harris -
There has been a meeting and discussions are still in progress. The talks have been taking place between the two sides here and in the United States.
Margaret Chan -
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
Hermann Hesse -
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
George Monbiot