David R. Brower Quotes
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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No one person is an island.
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
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I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn't an especially motivated student, either.
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Holger wished he had read the old tales more closely; he had only a dim childhood recollection of them.
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Make a list of all the people in your life, and rate them in terms of energy in, energy out. Is there anyone in your life right now who is blocking your love quest?
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We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
