Bill McKibben Quotes
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
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'All people are insane,' he said. 'They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.'
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School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
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A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
