Johan Rockstrom Quotes

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

Johan Rockstrom

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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.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Never
  • Write
  • Boring

• I'm bisexual.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Bisexual

• 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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Never
  • Season

• 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.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Humor

• 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.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Change
  • Personality

• The only thing you ever have is now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Now
  • Ever

• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • Children
  • Seven
  • Classroom

• I'm an only child, and we're a close family.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Child
  • Close

• Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Earth
  • City
  • Saying

• The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Together

• Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Present
  • Danger

• Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Real
  • Health
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Fight

• 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.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Career
  • Light

• No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

  

  Edith Wharton

• Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

  

  Andrew Carnegie

• There can be racism in a system even if a particular episode of injustice is not a manifestation of that racism. Every single thing in the criminal justice system is not a manifestation of racism, but many things are.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Single
  • Justice
  • Racism

• We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Relations
  • Renewed
  • Dawning

• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Day

• Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

  

  Johan Rockstrom