Bill McKibben Quotes
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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Man geht immer die gleichen Wege des Denkens wie vorher. Nur scheinen sie mit Rosen bestreut.
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
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I could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do.
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Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
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In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.
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Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
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Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.
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If it is wrong to wreck the planet, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage.
