Andrew Revkin Quotes
The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.
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The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.
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I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
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The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.
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The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.
