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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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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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 think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
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Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!'
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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
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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.
