Nicholas Herbert Stern (Nicholas Stern) Quotes
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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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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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.
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I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.
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If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
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'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously for 24 hours. We worked like robots for that song, but the quality is outstanding.
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Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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Sure we girls can wear pants now, and vote, and go to college, have a bank account, get a job that is not just stewardess or nurse. But we still have to deal with micro-aggressions and daily sexism. We are still fighting for word over our own bodies. We still get the short shrift on equal pay. We're still not represented in media or the arts with total parity. Not on screen or on the page or behind the scenes. It's still not easy. There is still this constant low-grade fight to be seen and taken seriously when you are a girl and when you become a woman. It totally sucks.
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I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.
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In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.
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My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
