Hank Green Quotes
Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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The smallest bacterium is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already has these system properties. So to go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to that bacterium.
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Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.
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As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
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I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.
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It's funny where life can take you.
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
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Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
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It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.
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Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.
