Albert Allen Bartlett Quotes

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

Albert Allen Bartlett

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• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • End
  • Will

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friend
  • Look
  • Dating

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Rest

• It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Life
  • Guy

• Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Proud

• You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Process
  • Same

• I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Wish
  • Enjoy
  • Movies

• I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Different
  • Know

• We made too many wrong mistakes.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Mistakes
  • Wrong
  • Many

• The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Father

• I like to learn things slow I like learning alot I like to get it all again and in the end You know you get what you got

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Learning

• The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Strong

• He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

  

  Daniel Webster

• Dear young friends, the Lord is asking you to be prophets of this new age, messengers of his love, drawing people to the Father and building a future of hope for all humanity.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • Friends
  • Hope

• There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America where capitalists oppose any government interference with free markets, while in China you have a very controlled, state-planned market where economic growth is better than ours.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • Time
  • Live
  • America

• If it wasn't a chaotic scene, if it was an orderly evacuation, we would be able to give you specifics about what our preferences would be, such as evacuating first the disabled, then the elderly and infants. That would of course be our preference. But the reality on the scene does not permit that. We're going to do the best we can with the resources we have.

  

  David Catania
  • Reality
  • Giving
  • Resources

• At the end of the day, we hope the industry will embrace what we're doing. This industry, in my humble opinion, has been paralyzed by its own internal politics.

  

  Ed Martin
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Industry

• The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

  

  Albert Allen Bartlett
  • Law
  • Growth
  • Resources