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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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
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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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My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
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My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.
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It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.
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Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
