James Lovelock Quotes

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

James Lovelock

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• There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Culture
  • Play
  • Popular

• I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

  

  Van Morrison
  • School
  • Me
  • Myself

• I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Family
  • Words

• I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Better
  • Grow
  • Comfort Zone

• I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Impact

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Value
  • Friendship

• Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • She
  • Together
  • Song

• In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Relationship
  • Emotional

• I would like to give evidence we can lead. And I think the only way we can do that is to unify the diversity of the party.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Party
  • Diversity

• The addition of vinaigrette to freshly roasted vegetables gives them a freshness and juiciness they don't normally have; the acidity brings out new shades of flavour, too.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • New
  • Vegetables
  • Shades

• I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Career
  • Politics

• With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Words
  • Freedom

• The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Know
  • Mathematician

• The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

  

  Ellen Key
  • People
  • Serious
  • Silence

• I wanted to go out of fashion, to study medicine. I thought, you know, who needs fashion? How important is it if you wear a red dress and an orange jacket? It's not, really.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Study

• The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • People
  • Political

• My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Girl
  • Catholic
  • Grandmother

• I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Successful
  • Discovered
  • Effect

• I'm about my characters.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Characters
  • About

• For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.

  

  Becca Tobin
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

  

  Mike Greenberg
  • Writing
  • Traveler
  • Bookstores

• So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

  

  James Lovelock