Maurice Strong Quotes

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

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• I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Different
  • Want
  • Myself

• DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Same
  • Privacy
  • E-mail

• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Writing
  • View

• I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Famous

• I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Star
  • Holiday

• That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
  • Friends
  • Many

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Mean

• I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Future

• If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Music
  • You
  • Vine

• Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Care
  • Body
  • Breathing

• I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Future
  • Want
  • Know

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Work
  • Boy
  • Talent

• At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Prayer
  • Animal
  • Differences

• Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

  

  Denise Richards
  • Why
  • She
  • Marriage

• It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Hope
  • Results
  • Healing

• Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rules
  • Prayers
  • Creditors

• There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Needs
  • Celebrity
  • Media

• The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

  

  Maurice Strong