Bill McKibben Quotes
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
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In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.
