Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
Quotes to Explore
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
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A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
