Gaylord Nelson Quotes
The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it's phony to say 'I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.'
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
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If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
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Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
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When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
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There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were... they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.
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You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
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People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.
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One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it's phony to say 'I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.'
