David R. Brower Quotes
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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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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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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By the end of 2001, between 100,000 to 150,000 Algerians had died in the civil war, as well as 120 foreigners. The cost to the economy ran into billions of dollars. And all this in spite of a tough, 120,000-strong army backed by 80,000 police.
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It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.
