Norman Myers Quotes

Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own.

Norman Myers

• Nature
• Animal
• Plant
• Welfare
• Biodiversity

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• I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Say
  • Realize

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Like
  • Europe
  • Preserve

• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Self-confidence

• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Opportunity
  • Something

• I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Man
  • First

• I was 19 when I discovered Pilates, and I'm still doing it. It's the workout my body really responds to. It's all about alignment, elongating your spine, and strengthening your core. It makes me feel my strongest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Me
  • Body
  • Doing

• The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Better
  • Movies
  • Being

• I love shopping! It's my release sometimes.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • Sometimes
  • Shopping

• All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Want
  • Risk

• In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Single

• People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I have always hated fancy dress parties.

  

  Mary Beard

• Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.

  

  Lu Yu
  • Decision

• My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Life
  • Great
  • Wife

• George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Work
  • Money
  • Together

• Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Explore

• Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Up
  • America
  • True

• I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

  

  Amaury Nolasco
  • Hate

• I've been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Stress

• Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own.

  

  Norman Myers
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Plant