Bill McKibben Quotes
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
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America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
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Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
