Achim Steiner Quotes
If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird immediacy that's, for me, really invigorating, and it just feels really rewarding.
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
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Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
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My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.
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If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.
