James Balog Quotes

Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

James Balog

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• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Child
  • Insurance
  • Lie

• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  

  Walter Scott
  • May
  • History
  • Knowledge

• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

  Quintilian
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Conceal

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Father
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Act

• I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Unique

• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Team

• I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Hair
  • Makeup
  • Learned

• I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • Book
  • Always
  • First

• I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • High
  • Free
  • Action

• For me, good service is efficient and discreet; it's that critical balance. As soon as the client sits down, the communication flow has to start. Customers need to feel that the waiters are supervised - that there's a system in place.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Service
  • Balance

• The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Promise
  • India
  • Execution

• Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Travel
  • Happiness
  • Building

• I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • Writing
  • Hand

• Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Wall

• Trump won the nomination because he was anti-left, not because of any political viewpoints, he was slapping people on the left and people on the right went, ‘Yeah, those people need to be slapped!

  

  Ben Shapiro
  • People
  • Political
  • Trump

• I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Song
  • Political
  • Opinion

• Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

  

  James Balog
  • Political
  • Football
  • Financial