William Rathje Quotes

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.

William Rathje

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• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

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• On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

  

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• I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a way in most of my life to wear a jumpsuit or an overall, anything that's sort of like an all-in-one situation. I do that on the red carpet a lot.

  

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• We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

  

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• In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.

  

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• My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.

  

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• Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

  

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• That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

  

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• One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

  

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• I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

  

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• Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'

  

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• After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

  

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• Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

  

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• The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

  

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• If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

  

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• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

  

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• I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.

  

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• Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

  

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• The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

  

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• You should always be dedicated and know that, if you strive to do something, you can achieve it.

  

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• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

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• There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.

  

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• Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.

  

  William Rathje
  • Management
  • Approach
  • Waste