Alfred W. Crosby Quotes
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.
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We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
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Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
