James Lovelock Quotes
We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I'd be in the air right now. ... But I'm glad it didn't (come to that). There was significant interest (from other teams), but we had the opportunity to stay here and we took advantage of it. I think both sides are very happy.
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Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'
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... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
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We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
