Bill McKibben Quotes
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
Bill McKibben
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
Wanda Sykes
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It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
Olivia Wilde
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
Yitzhak Shamir
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
Aaron Funk
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
Hanna Rosin
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
Vash Young
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I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
Orhan Pamuk
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
Jack Nance
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So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
Jack Kingston
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The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.
Nathan Lane
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Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.
Vincent Cassel
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Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
Jack Kilby
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Azarius, for his part, had not made her voyage to the depths of pain to understand that death and birth, in that place, have almost the same tragic meaning.
Gabrielle Roy
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he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but
Harper Lee
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I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.
Coco Chanel
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I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.
Brian Chesky
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When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.
Paula Abdul
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To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.
Debra Messing
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A real mother, who knows the will of God by experience, will prepare her children also to fulfil it. Such a mother will suffer if she sees her child overfed, effeminate, and dressed-up, for she knows that these things will make it difficult for it to fulfil the will of God which she recognizes.
Leo Tolstoy
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
Fay Vincent
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We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.
Rick Perry
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When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
Bill McKibben
