Pete Wilson Quotes
The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.
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Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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My mom is my great supporter. It's always nice to have her around. She can cook. It's nice to have some home-cooked food sometimes.
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No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.
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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.
