Niels Diffrient Quotes
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.
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We were mighty short of infielders in those days
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[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.
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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.
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And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it.
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I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.
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I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").
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In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
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Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
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If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
