Jeff Goodell Quotes
But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
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It's very hard to connect with a character when you haven't gotten a sense of who they are.
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Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.
