William Rathje Quotes

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

William Rathje

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• I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Play
  • Best
  • Video Games

• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Science
  • Wonder

• Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Society
  • Political

• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Kids
  • Out
  • Five

• Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Grace

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • More
  • Where
  • Egypt

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Heart

• The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Different
  • Game
  • Football

• Who does understand life?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Does

• In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Like
  • Service
  • Obsessed

• Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Music
  • Player

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Love

• My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win.

  

  Morgan Brittany
  • Kids
  • Winning
  • Feels

• I got the pumps It aint got medicine

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Medicine
  • Materialistic
  • Pumps

• I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of cough drops and a spoon of cough medicine. I said to him, "Hey, can I have another spoon of that? It's just over the counter," and he'd go, "No, I didn't come here to start up new drug addictions for you." And I was like, "C'mon, give me that bottle!" He was very watchful over me.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Prince
  • Medicine
  • I Remember

• Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind.

  

  Sebastian Stan
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Hands

• Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

  

  William Rathje
  • Medicine
  • Environmental
  • Garbage