Paul R. Ehrlich Quotes

I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion.

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• I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Family
  • Love
  • Career

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Sword
  • Hidden

• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Human
  • Race
  • Realize

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

  

  Patrick White
  • Country
  • School
  • House

• I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Want
  • Smile

• One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Time
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Just
  • Workplace
  • Worse

• From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Crazy
  • Wrestling
  • Hip Hop

• Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alone

• Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Father
  • Career

• There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Winning
  • Intellectual

• In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Live
  • Fire
  • Safety

• Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• 8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Attention

• I wear glasses because I need them; I don't wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and I'm blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; I've always worn crazy, goofy glasses, it's just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me.

  

  Anastacia
  • Fun
  • Society
  • Fashion

• You can be taking two steps forward as an actor, but if a movie doesn't make money, you might as well be taking two steps backwards. It's all about economics.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Money
  • Movie

• Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butter.

  

  Charlie Sifford
  • Time
  • Bread
  • Tournament

• The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Time

• Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.

  

  Frank Harris
  • Experience

• I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion.

  

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