John Glenn Quotes
Could this have just happened? . . . I can’t believe that ... Some Power put all this into orbit and keeps it there.
Quotes to Explore
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
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In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
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Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
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He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say.
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Could this have just happened? . . . I can’t believe that ... Some Power put all this into orbit and keeps it there.
