Jeff Goodell Quotes
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.
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I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
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I grew up with reggae music.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
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I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.
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I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.
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Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
