David Suzuki Quotes
If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.
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And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
