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.Bill McKibben
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.
Vicky McClure -
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.
C. J. Mahaney -
People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
Vikas Swarup -
The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
Camila Alves -
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Malcolm X -
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Saad Hariri
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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.
Nathan Fillion -
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
T. Boone Pickens -
Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
Mahesh Babu -
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes -
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.
Nancy Willard -
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
Jacki Weaver
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Barbara Corcoran -
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.
Samantha Shannon -
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.
Imogen Poots -
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.
Vincent Cassel -
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp
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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
Faith Popcorn -
I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge -
I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'
Lucy Hale -
Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.
Thomas Mitchell Morris -
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.
Bill McKibben