Naomi Oreskes Quotes
Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.
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Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.
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The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!
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I'm still on an adventure but it's more without a goal then it was in the earlier years. I'm letting myself be led to the places I think I want to go.
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Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.
