John Holdren Quotes

I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.

John Holdren

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• No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Country
  • Where
  • Spectrum

• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Earth
  • End

• Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Democracy
  • Enthusiasm

• Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Copy

• Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Want
  • Career
  • Television

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • Money
  • Together

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Without
  • Consequences

• I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Know
  • Down
  • Leverage

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• Brazil is on my side.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Side
  • Brazil

• Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Character
  • Beginning
  • End

• I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Sing
  • Had
  • Operation

• Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work

• In the beginning was the Word.In the end...past honor, past life, past caring...In the end will be the Word.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Past
  • Beginning

• I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who

• What I do for a living is whimsical and fun and ridiculous. I'm supposed to make people laugh. We all have that child in us. For many people, that child gets pushed into a corner. But if you want to be creative, that little kid can never go away.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • People
  • Fun

• Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

  

  John Abizaid
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Door

• It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Knows
  • Thing

• Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Thoughts
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.

  

  John Holdren