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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Party
  • Creativity

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • May
  • Today
  • Leader

• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• 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.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Like
  • Choice

• In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Children
  • Black

• 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!

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• '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.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Stop
  • Decision
  • Daily

• We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Same
  • Measure
  • Selling

• 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.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

  

  Philippa Gregory
  • Country
  • Couple
  • Silence

• I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.

  

  Arjun Kapoor

• Our family love is so special, and I truly believe it is due to our work and dedication to communication and patience.

  

  Allison Holker
  • Family
  • Communication
  • Patience

• It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Life
  • Country
  • Death