Maurice Strong Quotes
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 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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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
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Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
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A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'
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For many children, the sport they do is because that is the one that was most available to them.
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It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
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A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
