William H. Calvin Quotes
Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X, Relax. We're going to be OK.
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I just really love being in my pajamas.
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Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
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Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.
