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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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.
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Let's dispel this fiction once and for all that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing; he's undergoing a systematic effort to change this country and make America more like the rest of the world. If I'm elected we'll embrace what makes America the greatest country in the world.
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When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.
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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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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.
