Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Quotes
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.
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And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
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Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
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Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.
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I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).
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Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
