Rachel Carson Quotes
We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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... the more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present troubles ill. Do not lose hope. Yet a little while and your Helper will come to you and will not tarry (cf. Hab. 2:3).
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I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic.
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I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
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When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.
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We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.
