Bill McKibben Quotes

We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

Bill McKibben

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• The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Different
  • Important
  • May

• As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Men
  • Child
  • Fact

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

  

  Kajol
  • Body
  • Exercise
  • Working

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • May
  • Effort
  • Moral

• Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Day

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Day

• Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Important
  • Power
  • Day

• I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Together
  • Interesting

• Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Sexy
  • Just

• I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • President

• Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Man
  • Exercise
  • Stress

• Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Great
  • Morning

• I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Smoke
  • Cigarettes
  • Junkie

• I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Half

• We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • World
  • Earth

• I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Focus

• Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.

  

  William Herndon
  • Country
  • Simple
  • Protection

• We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

  

  Bill McKibben