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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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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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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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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I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.
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The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
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I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
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The cool thing about Snapchat is you can get a lot of news on there now. There's CNN, ESPN, and I find myself reading the most random articles. I don't know how it actually benefits me, but it's interesting. I like to stay up on current events, so I have to give kudos to Snapchat: they've done a good job of that. But I'm on there way too much.
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Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa dying when they did, and how they did, represent the opening salvos of a social revolution in the nineties.
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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.
