Christiana Figueres Quotes
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.Christiana Figueres
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
Parker Posey -
Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
Flume -
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
Karin Slaughter -
I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg -
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
Ida B. Wells
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
Veerappa Moily -
Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
Sadie Frost -
When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
Kacey Musgraves -
I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
Oren Peli -
I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
Jacki Weaver -
It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Your whole perspective changes on what's possible. You can make dreams happen.
B. R. Hayden -
People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.
Albert Bandura -
Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.
Barack Obama -
As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.
Daisy Whitney -
Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
Seth Berkley -
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
Andrew Dickson White
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Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?
Trenton Lee Stewart -
The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
Steve Forbes -
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
Christiana Figueres