Maurice Strong Quotes

Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

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• We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Real
  • Done
  • Fun

• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Mind
  • Language
  • Same

• It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Game
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Beer

• Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Good
  • Good Things

• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Poverty
  • Worst

• When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Bird

• In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Great
  • Country
  • Myself

• Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Better
  • Discriminated

• My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are from Ohio, and when I was a little kid, my aunts and uncles would send me Boomer Esiason T-shirts and Ickey Woods mini-footballs, so I got hooked on those guys.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Team

• It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Greatness

• Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I was born in a Muslim family and Muslim women suffer under Islam.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Women
  • Family

• Institutions should focus on educating against clashes of culture and the promotion of a culture of tolerance and peace.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Culture
  • Peace
  • Focus

• There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration

• I do think the chief justice has a particular obligation to try to achieve consensus consistent with everyone's individual oath to uphold the Constitution, and that would certainly be a priority for me if I were confirmed.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Justice
  • Obligation
  • Particular

• It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be much easier to appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability! But difficult times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of creativity, and of emergence.

  

  David Spangler
  • Opportunity
  • Feelings
  • inspirational

• I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • Practice

• Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

  

  Maurice Strong