Jeff Goodell Quotes
It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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I don't think there is much American music.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.
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I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.
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I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.
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It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.
