Daniel Yergin Quotes
Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Healthy people have healthy boundaries. Unhealthy people, well, let’s not get into that. It’s like this: some people have walls which means they let no one in. This equals unhealthy. Some people let everyone in and let themselves be stepped all over. This equals unhealthy.
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Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.
