Julia Butterfly Hill (Julia Lorraine Hill) Quotes

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Company
  • Intellectual

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Conflict

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Arena
  • Park

• Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Time found our tired love sleeping,And kissed away his breath;But what should we do weeping,Though light love sleep to death?We have drained his lips at leisure,Till there's not left to drainA single sob of pleasure,A single pulse of pain.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Time
  • Death
  • Light

• A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Good
  • Perfect

• I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

  

  Matt Emmons
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Up
  • America
  • Sales

• My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming.

  

  Kelli O'Hara
  • Great
  • Believe
  • America

• I think I'll probably be pregnant all through my 30s. I've always pictured everyone around the table for the holidays and together once a week. It'll be heartbreaking if it doesn't end up happening, but hopefully it will. We've got some embryos on hold.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Up
  • Together

• Whether you're a high school student, attend traditional college, or take night classes while working full-time, it is imperative that you are given the tools necessary to become competitive in the workforce.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d'orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • People
  • Music

• When I found out I was pregnant, I was 22. It was really scary because I was working the music thing, and with a kid coming, you just can't live that life with a child.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.

  

  David Hallberg
  • Work

• I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Life

• I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.

  

  David Nevins
  • Game
  • Simple

• Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Good
  • Society
  • Sophisticated

• Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

  

  Philip Johnson
  • House

• Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

  

  Debbie Allen

• The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Great
  • Community
  • Jump

• I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

  

  Julia Butterfly Hill
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