Alfred W. Crosby Quotes
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.Alfred W. Crosby
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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.
Fidel Castro -
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.
Naomi Watts -
I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
O. J. Simpson -
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu -
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
Jack Steinberger -
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
Garth Brooks
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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.
Hans Zimmer -
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.
Cara Delevingne -
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.
Natalie Merchant -
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
Fra Angelico -
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.'
Lane Garrison -
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
Karen Hughes
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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.
Earle Brown -
For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
Zooey Deschanel -
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
Charles Darwin -
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
Agnes Repplier -
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.
Albert Einstein -
If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
Brigham Young
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Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.
Lapo Elkann -
Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.
Kathryn Lasky -
My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.
Chirlane McCray -
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
Alfred W. Crosby