Bill McKibben Quotes
Human beings-any one of us, and our species as a whole-are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.
Quotes to Explore
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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They're gonna be mad at us.They're gonna be mad at me and you.They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.
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Old-style management is irrelevant.
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I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.
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It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.
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I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed.
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Human beings-any one of us, and our species as a whole-are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.
