Andrew Revkin Quotes

I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.

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• We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • America
  • Horse

• It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • Think
  • Right
  • Communication

• The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • History
  • Action

• I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Right

• I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Power
  • Very
  • Vocation

• My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Think
  • Parents
  • Education

• I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Up
  • Age
  • Player

• If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

  

  O. Henry
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• At night I wake up and think, What color will make me feel better when I soak in the bathtub for an hour? I want everyone who's dreaming of a glamorous life to know that I'd trade a good bath any day for the heels, the hair, the makeup, the tight dresses, the photographs, the small talk.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • She
  • Death

• Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.

  

  Benjamin Graham

• Descend, descend, Urania, speak To men in their own tongue! Leave not the breaking heart to break Because thine own is strong. This is the law, in dream and deed, That heaven must walk on earth! O, shine upon the humble creed That holds the heavenly birth.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Dream

• The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Theatre

• One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Small
  • Interesting

• I'm not afraid to work.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Work

• We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

  

  Bernie Mac

• We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Up
  • God
  • Comedy

• I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Small

• I'm just one of those people that when there's a door that says 'Do Not Enter,' I have to know what's happening on the other side of that door.

  

  Keith Maitland
  • People
  • Door

• Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • True
  • Performance

• Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.

  

  Andrew Revkin
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