James Lovelock Quotes

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

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• Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Past
  • Partner
  • Decade

• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Believe
  • Party
  • Compromise

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • She
  • Voice

• The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Nature
  • Interesting
  • Common

• If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Nice
  • Jokes

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Decision
  • Moral
  • Choices

• When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Relationships

• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Look
  • Jump
  • Step

• China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • World
  • Think
  • Presence

• Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Society
  • Artists
  • Going

• I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Great
  • American
  • Start

• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Important
  • Love
  • Why

• I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Company
  • Hollywood
  • Worked

• Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Reality
  • Flying
  • Mathematics

• The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • People

• It took a lot of bottle for Tony (Adams) to own up.

  

  Ian Wright
  • Up
  • Bottle
  • Own up

• Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

  

  John French Sloan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

  

  Lord Byron
  • People
  • Fame
  • Advantage

• Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

  

  James Lovelock