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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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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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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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.
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In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.
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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.
