William Vogt Quotes
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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There are two words for everything.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: 'it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.'
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Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that
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We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture.
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I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.
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You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
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We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
