Ramez Naam Quotes
What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.Ramez Naam
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
Jackie Chan -
Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
Gary Paulsen -
You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
Tanya Tucker -
Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
Ban Ki-moon -
Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
Madeline Zima -
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
Hamza Yusuf -
I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
Zac Brown Band -
An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
Valentino Garavani -
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barbara Walters -
Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
Rand Paul -
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Ira Glass
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
Cameron Crowe -
When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
Wayne Rogers -
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
Quentin Tarantino -
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
H. G. Bissinger -
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza -
The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
Sam Graves
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When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.
Martha Stewart -
The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.
James Mercer Broken Bells -
Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.
Bakari Kitwana -
I am Olympic champion for life, and I have learned to enjoy what that means.
Jade Jones -
Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
Chris Wedge -
What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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