Jim Ratcliffe Quotes
You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy and you use it every week, of course. But you then need to maintain the quality of the stories, and it's harder to do.
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Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence.
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If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.
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A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.
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Life is complicated. It's filled with nuance. It's unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt.
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You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.
