Donella Meadows Quotes
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
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Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
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I don't watch a lot of television.
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If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
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Kids have awkward moments.
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The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.
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I watched 'Newlyweds' - that was my favorite reality show because I love Jessica Simpson. I'm obsessed with her.
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We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in prison now as we did in 1981, when I left the White House. So that's been one of the major concerns I've had as a non-lawyer, to criticize the American justice system, which is highly biased against black people and poor people. And it still is.
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We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
