Alan Thein Durning Quotes
If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we will have the opportunity of replacing it with a low consumption economy that can endure.Alan Thein Durning
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
Jack McBrayer -
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
Warren Farrell -
If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
Adam Cohen -
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler -
I wanna live.
Patrick Swayze -
My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
Ian Harding
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
Daniel Ellsberg -
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
Randi Weingarten -
Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
Ted Deutch -
The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.
Laura Mvula -
Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.
Rachel Maddow -
I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.
Rand Paul
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
T. C. Boyle -
We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.
Denise Morrison -
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
Takashi Murakami -
More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.
Ted Morgan -
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer -
Fuel cells and the hydrogen economy are absolutely the next great race for industry.
Larry Burns
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
Gavin MacLeod -
The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
Abraham Lincoln -
If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we will have the opportunity of replacing it with a low consumption economy that can endure.
Alan Thein Durning