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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In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes... We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society.
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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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Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.
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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.
