Bill McKibben Quotes
Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
-
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
-
To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
-
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
-
It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
-
There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
-
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
-
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
-
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
-
We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
-
Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
-
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
-
What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
-
I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
-
I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
-
Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's not really one genre I'm trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I'm planning on going farther.
-
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
-
I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.
-
If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.
-
By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'
-
Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
