Mark Z. Jacobson Quotes
You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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Part of courage is simple consistency.
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There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.
