Adam Gollner Quotes

Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

Adam Gollner

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• Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Never
  • Someone

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Tax
  • Effective
  • Global

• Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Politics
  • Issues
  • Involved

• One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Successful

• Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Dumb
  • Even

• I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • History
  • See
  • Collaboration

• Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Together
  • Help
  • Food

• The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Plants

• And with the Afghan war ending, this needs to be the year Congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detainee transfers and we close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, because we counter terrorism not just through intelligence and military action but by remaining true to our constitutional ideals and setting an example for the rest of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • War
  • True

• I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Bad
  • Night

• While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Truth
  • Reality

• Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children
  • Giving

• Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true!

  

  James Carville
  • True
  • Friend
  • Military

• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

  

  Donald Miller
  • World
  • Present
  • Person

• Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

  

  Adam Gollner
  • Nature
  • Eating
  • Homogeneity