Rachel Carson Quotes
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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We care about margins.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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I am a fan of wuxia.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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I even ate chips because I love the crunchy sound they make. And I didn't give much thought to what I was eating or what I was putting inside my body, except hummus, of course, which is one of my weaknesses.
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I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
