Alan Thein Durning Quotes
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.Alan Thein Durning
Quotes to Explore
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
Rachel Kushner -
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
Zach Braff -
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
Idris Elba -
There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
J. J. Watt -
As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
Tavi Gevinson -
I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
Patricia Riggen
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
Naomi Klein -
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
Ian Somerhalder -
I think we all have had better days in competition.
Carly Patterson -
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg -
I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
Harmony Korine
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I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'
R. J. Cutler -
My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.
Florence Henderson -
I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
Maika Monroe -
My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet every couple of years, I go on a ski trip for the same reason that women will have multiple children - they simply forget how much it hurts.
W. Bruce Cameron -
It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.
Bryan Adams -
I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.
Walt Dohrn
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I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.
Christina Aguilera -
The single most important contribution that I can offer, the strengthening of people's spirit and soul, the strengthening of families, the unity of a husband and a wife. To me, that's most important. Without that, we have nothing. If a son doesn't respect a father, if a child doesn't respect a parent, then we're lost.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
Karin Slaughter -
Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.
Ray Fisher -
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.
Alan Thein Durning