Annie Leonard Quotes
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
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Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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You can't demand generational change on the one hand and expect 40 years of experience on the other.
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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.
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No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
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Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.
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I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on reality.
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We've got to rescue our democracy by using it.
