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I call upon governments to start supporting companies to use more sustainable materials in their products instead of continuing with antiquated incentives, such as import duties on synthetic materials that are in principle much higher compared with those placed on leather goods regardless of the environmental footprint.

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• The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
  • Settings

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Violence
  • Plan

• I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Conflict

• I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Next
  • Pages
  • Typewriter

• If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Years

• Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.

  

  Manny Farber
  • World
  • May
  • Pride

• The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Society
  • Competition

• Mind your till, and till your mind.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Mind

• It’s very uncomfortable to hear them used when I don’t agree with what’s being said. But I recognize that those songs have entered into a bigger life, a life all their own. They belong to the audience. How they’re used isn’t always something I can control.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Control

• As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems.

  

  Chung Mong-joon
  • Football

• Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Time
  • Done
  • Law

• Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

  

  Jerry Saltz

• Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Different
  • Trying

• As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Beautiful

• I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • People
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Resist

• We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Climate Change
  • Emissions
  • Contributing

• Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

  

  Alex North
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Time
  • Done
  • Help

• I call upon governments to start supporting companies to use more sustainable materials in their products instead of continuing with antiquated incentives, such as import duties on synthetic materials that are in principle much higher compared with those placed on leather goods regardless of the environmental footprint.

  

  Jochen Zeitz