Jeff Goodell Quotes
In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity batteries to machines that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air. With a personal fortune of $50 billion, Gates has the resources to give his favorite solutions a major boost.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
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All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity batteries to machines that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air. With a personal fortune of $50 billion, Gates has the resources to give his favorite solutions a major boost.
