Paul R. Ehrlich Quotes
Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I'm cranky.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
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Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
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It is not the similarity or dissimilarity of individuals that constitutes a group, but interdependence of fate.
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Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
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Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.
