Wallace Smith Broecker (Wally) Quotes
The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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Clearly, there have been changes in the climate.
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The reason I sell 6 million records, the reason I could go to jail and come out without a scratch, the reason I can walk around, the reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly in to my face and find my soul, it's there, it's not sold, i didn't sell it, it's still within me, I still feel it, my heart is still connected to my body.
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When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.
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The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.
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To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.
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Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.
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Yes I’m a beast and I feast when I conquer!
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When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first hit records did I start playing.
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I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
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I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
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If warming were held to a minimum, the team estimated that between 22 and 31 percent of the species would be “committed to extinction” by 2050. If warming were to reach what was at that point considered a likely maximum—a figure that now looks too low—by the middle of this century, between 38 and 52 percent of the species would be fated to disappear.
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Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.
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I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.
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MIU was still stuffed into their overheated office space. Luckily somebody had sprung for an industrial-sized cooling fan with a face the same diameter as a dustbin lid and an unfortunate tendency to blow any unsecured paperwork out the nearest window. If we’d had a green screen we could have shot the live elements to a low budget disaster movie.
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Ann Winder-Boyle’s small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look – they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.
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The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.
