William Nordhaus Quotes
The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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I thought I'd have the baby, and get super fit and strong straight away.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
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Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.
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These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result from global warming, which itself, may not be occurring from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. The aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment is the only aspect of global environmental change about which we can be certain; and to restrict CO2 emissions is to assuredly deny the biosphere the many benefits that accrue from this phenomenon.
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Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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Hurricane Katrina is a wake-up call for our nation. It reminded us of the power of Mother Nature and the need for federal, state and local governments to always be prepared... As we go about rebuilding the Gulf Coast, we welcome the president's proposals as well as the thoughts of state and local leaders.
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The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
