Bill McKibben Quotes
These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
Quotes to Explore
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.
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And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish.
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It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
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I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
