Chris Kilham Quotes
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
Calvin Trillin
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
Patricia Polacco
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
Ferdinand Lassalle
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
Samuel Fuller
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There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?
Gary Weiss
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I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
Jack Dee
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Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
Malala Yousafzai
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
Aaron Douglas
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Samuel Beckett
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I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.
W. C. Fields
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In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.
Yoenis Cespedes
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The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
Dan Harmon
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
Vernon Howard
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The verb 'fuck' has been a part of the language since at least early 1500s. The actual practice, far longer. So, no need to be embarrassed of either.
Anu Garg
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.
Arthur Koestler
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It is not the end. There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.
Neil Gaiman
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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
Desmond Tutu
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
Pat Gillick
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Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
Jamais Cascio
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You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.
Carly Schroeder
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The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
Sean Penn
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Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
Carl Hart
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Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
Chris Kilham