Gaylord Nelson Quotes
Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
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Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.
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The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
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Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
