William Cronon Quotes
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.
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I've told older friends to pick up the guitar because it's a great way to express yourself. It's not all about making money: it's about creating art and working with other people. It's a journey, and it's a really fun thing to do.
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Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!
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I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.
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At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads.
