James Lovelock Quotes
The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
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I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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In Utah, one word sums up our business prowess: investment. Simply put, we know we can't have long-term economic growth and maintain Utah's enviable quality of life without making some critical investments.
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It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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'More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.'
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Anyone can change the world. But no one can change it forever. In a hundred years, no one you know will be alive. What will it matter then if we fought or just spent our days sleeping in the sun?
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There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.
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Of course, Sam [Fuller] was like, "No problem," because he treated it like a newspaper deadline. We worked long hours, often very late into the night, in his garage, which had been converted into an office. It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian. And he gave me cigars, too, of course.
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The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or large, better than you. Remember at these times what you have rather than what you don't and be grateful]
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The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.
