Chico Mendes (Francisco Alves Mendes Filho) Quotes

I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word.

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• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
  • You
  • Stop

• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Physician

• Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Always

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Perfect
  • Years
  • Hours

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Myself

• People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Vote
  • Cultural

• Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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  • Know
  • Maybe

• So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Life
  • Identity

• I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Help
  • Simple

• Whether elected or appointedHe considers himself the Lord's annointed,And indeed the ointment lingers on himSo thick you can't get your fingers on him.

  

  Ogden Nash

• I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Time
  • Rain
  • Purple

• Daredevil's religion makes him unique. He's a vigilante, but he's also a lawyer - and all the while, he believes only God is capable of bringing people to justice.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • People
  • God
  • Justice

• If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest financial company in the world.

  

  David O. Sacks
  • World
  • Financial
  • Destiny

• There's Alex Linz and then there's Alexander David Linz which is too long and Alex D. Linz is this nice, short, cool sounding thing.

  

  Alex D. Linz
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Cool

• I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Joy

• At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • People
  • Music
  • Opinion

• I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word.

  

  Chico Mendes
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