Johan Rockstrom Quotes
Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.
Quotes to Explore
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I'm bisexual.
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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The only thing you ever have is now.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
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Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!
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The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
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The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.
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Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
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I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.
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It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
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The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.
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To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
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Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.
