James Lovelock Quotes
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing makes me happier than my face splashed all over the city.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
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I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.
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Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
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America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government.
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China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
