Brian Schatz Quotes

Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean energy economy. We do not have the luxury of burying our heads in the sand.

Brian Schatz

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• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Small
  • Know

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Best
  • Responsibility
  • Story

• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Good
  • Very
  • Sciences

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Pretty
  • Much
  • Thrift

• There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Way
  • Hide

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Up
  • Know
  • Thought

• I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Look
  • Definitely

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Wealth

• I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Wedding
  • White
  • Dress

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Deep
  • Friendship
  • Roots

• I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Up
  • World
  • Girl

• When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • People
  • Time
  • Energy

• I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.

  

  Bill Callahan
  • Simple
  • Dumb

• If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.

  

  Davis Love III
  • Genius
  • Explain
  • Could

• Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

  

  Bjork
  • Energy

• Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean energy economy. We do not have the luxury of burying our heads in the sand.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Energy