Wangari Maathai Quotes
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I would like to direct.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I think, as long as you're secure with yourself and happy with yourself, it really doesn't matter what the world around you thinks.
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I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.
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It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.
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Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
