Maurice Strong Quotes
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.

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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
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I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy's friends.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.