Richard Louv Quotes
We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.
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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
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Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.
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I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.
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I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'
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My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
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A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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I still play my old vinyl LPs - I like the scratches - and I miss browsing in record shops, because they held great nostalgia for me.
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Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.
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Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
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I live and die for the Buckeyes. I also love to play racquetball.
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
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Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.
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Have you ever thought of yourself as a junior angel crowned with glory and honor? Every one of our Father in Heaven's children is great in His sight. If the Lord sees greatness in you, how then should you see yourself?
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.
