Jeff Goodell Quotes
The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians' minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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Being evil is easy.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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So far there is no evidence for increased chance of human-to-human transmission.
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Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
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Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.
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In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.
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The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians' minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.
