Chris Paine Quotes
Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.
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Maybe you ride a different wave. Maybe you catch another ray of the sun That I've just begun to feel.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
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Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
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Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.
