Johan Rockstrom Quotes
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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I had a chance to do 'Ant-Man' in 2011.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
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We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.
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Whenever you are out of work, you need to take the opportunity to do things you like to do.
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In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
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This period of blue monochrome was the product of my pursuit of the indefinable in painting which that master, Eugène Delacroix Romantic French painter was able to indicate even in his day.
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Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
