Chicken John ("Chicken" John Rinaldi) Quotes

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.

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• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Different
  • Think
  • Choices

• I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Choices

• The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Choices

• To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Real
  • Wife
  • Choices

• What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Light
  • Democracy

• We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Children
  • Free
  • Fear

• I think Keira Knightley is amazing, and I've heard also that she is one of the coolest, most down-to-earth, brilliant girls, and I really look up to her in that respect. She's got it all, really, and I think she's made interesting, bold choices in her work.

  

  Lily James
  • Up
  • Work
  • She

• Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they'll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they'll bring you down.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Freedom
  • Choices
  • Stupid

• You really want to keep ringing the changes - you hope that your work and your choices make people excited about where you're going next and that that might be somewhere unexpected.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist, and if I feel the need to be liberated and do the kind of work I need to do, I will.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I feel as though, as an actor, you can only make brave choices when you're acting with people that you're so relaxed with that you can make a mistake.

  

  Jaime Murray
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Choices

• We're all human, and part of being human is showing respect and support for others' life choices.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Support

• I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Different
  • Freedom
  • Choices

• I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Control
  • Choices

• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Real
  • Technology
  • Hurt

• For a long time I've been walking down life's road with my two pals, Bad Luck and Bad Choices. Fortunately I'm a big believer in new beginnings, new friends, and running from my problems. So one day I decided to head for the island. Aloha, my name is Jack.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Friends
  • Humility

• Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Universe

• The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • People
  • Moral
  • Countries

• How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Weird
  • Changes

• I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.

  

  Chicken John
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