Maurice Strong Quotes

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

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• The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Discrimination

• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  

  J. Lee Thompson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Movies

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Good
  • Music
  • Sound

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Political
  • Practice

• As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Saying

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Want
  • Irony
  • Mustache

• People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Up
  • Food
  • Care

• The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Me
  • Touch

• There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans - not as Democrats or Republicans-we are met here as Americans to solve that problem.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • American

• Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Culture
  • Learning

• In terms of creativity, both are equally satisfying. Music album is for yourself, where you compose songs and stuff like that, and in films, you have a story, characters, and songs penned by someone else.

  

  Mohit Chauhan
  • Yourself
  • Creativity
  • Characters

• Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Value
  • Listening
  • Doing

• What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

  

  Maurice Strong