Bill Mollison Quotes
There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of real life. Some of the old middle-Eastern societies had downdraft systems over whole cities, and passive, rapid-evaporation ice-making systems. They were rational people using good physical principles to make themselves comfortable without additional sources of energy.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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We are all terminal.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.
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It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.
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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
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The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.
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There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of real life. Some of the old middle-Eastern societies had downdraft systems over whole cities, and passive, rapid-evaporation ice-making systems. They were rational people using good physical principles to make themselves comfortable without additional sources of energy.
