Rachel Carson Quotes
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
