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.

Chris Paine

• Enemy
• Messed
• Fossil Fuels
• Disservice
• Electric Car
• Oil Companies

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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.

  

  Famke Janssen
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  • Things
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • River

• 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.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

• 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.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Football
  • Baseball

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • American
  • Chinese

• If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Child
  • Routine
  • Your Child

• Maybe you ride a different wave. Maybe you catch another ray of the sun That I've just begun to feel.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Different
  • Sun

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
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  • Parents

• Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Blessed
  • Legend

• No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

  

  Edmund Burke

• “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”

  

  Sylvia Plath
  • Feel
  • Be Happy
  • Lungs

• General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Enemy
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• The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Enemy
  • Comeback
  • Has Beens

• The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Military
  • Enemy
  • Lies

• 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.

  

  Chris Paine
  • Enemy
  • Messed
  • Fossil Fuels