Wangari Maathai Quotes
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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There is no one true church.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.
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TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.
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We're just nerds that play music. Because we get played on the radio and have a Vitaminwater ad with Aaron Paul dancing on a treadmill, people are going to say we sold out. I don't write music for that. I write music for me.
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When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.
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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
