Andrew Revkin Quotes
Probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius, it's having fewer kids...we'll soon see a market in baby-avoidance carbon credits similar to efforts to sell CO2 credits for avoiding deforestation.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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I'm not really a model.
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Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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Vince McMahon said alright, we're going to call you the Blue Blazer.
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Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.
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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
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Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy.
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Probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius, it's having fewer kids...we'll soon see a market in baby-avoidance carbon credits similar to efforts to sell CO2 credits for avoiding deforestation.
