Paul Hawken Quotes
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
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Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.
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I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.
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The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.
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Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
