Naomi Oreskes Quotes
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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To act is to rest.
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It was not enough that India should get Swaraj. It was more important in whose hands the Swaraj would be.
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I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot.
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I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.
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I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
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I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker.
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I want to dance. I want to live.
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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
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A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!
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As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.
