Wangari Maathai Quotes
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
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We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.
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'Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.'
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
