Rachel Carson Quotes
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.
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I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.
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The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
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What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
