Jeff Goodell Quotes
If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.
Quotes to Explore
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
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It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned.
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
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The rain begins with a single drop.
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From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
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Science demands patience.
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... no diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.
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I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
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Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.
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We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.
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Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.
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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.
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My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.
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I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
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If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.
