Christiana Figueres Quotes
I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.
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Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
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There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.
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I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
