Maurice Strong Quotes
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
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They say I'm a conservative, but I consider myself I true liberal.
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I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want to roll their project out. It's just important to give them that opportunity to roll it out the way they want to.
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When I see what I want, I do it.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
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I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.
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A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
