Jeff Goodell Quotes

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

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• All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

  

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

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• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

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• Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

  

  Callie Khouri
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• One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I want to win football games.

  

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• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
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• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

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• I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

  

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• I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

  

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• I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

  

  Kary Mullis
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• For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

  

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• History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

  

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• Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

  

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• What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

  

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• It's important to win with style.

  

  Antonio Conte
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• Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.

  

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• I was in the playground, like, 'Let's imitate the Spice Girls and form a girl group!' I would go home and sing into my hairbrush and act like Britney Spears. I was no Mozart.

  

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• They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• I stay up late; I'm like a vampire. I stay up until, like, 6 A.M. and then sleep till 4 P.M. I lay in bed till it's dark, and then I come alive in the night.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
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• The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

  

  Jeff Goodell
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