Rachel Carson Quotes

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Fantasy
  • Only

• I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Everything

• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Film
  • Interested
  • Student

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Feel
  • Talking
  • Colleagues

• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Coaching

• You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Best
  • Learn
  • Humor

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Very
  • Our
  • Self-Awareness

• My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Now
  • Have
  • Behind

• Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Very
  • Embarrassed

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Working

• I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Work
  • Sound

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Dad

• We are so resilient as a people. I have so much respect for their dignity and courage. I hope the world sees this side of Pakistan, one where professionals want a democracy. The spirit of our intelligentsia cannot be broken.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

  

  Rachel Carson
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