Paul Hawken Quotes
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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The hardest part for me is to finish a track. I start new projects all the time.
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On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.
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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
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If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don’t value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.
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I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.
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Despite some struggles of our own, America's business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
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Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
