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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A climate in which belief may flourish.
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I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.
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Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
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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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It's funny, I don't really feel that nostalgic. I only recently started putting up some photos from some of the sessions I've done over the years and some of the Garbage sessions because my daughter, who's 10-years-old, when she was about 6 or 7 she was more curious about what I do. I have all these platinum records and stuff, they've all just been in boxes in storage for years but I started just digging through those things because I sort of want her to be aware of my past. I never really put the old recordings on and listen to them and go, "Oh that sounds great."
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The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
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It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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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.
