Rachel Carson Quotes
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
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In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
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I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.
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As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
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I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
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The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
