Earl Blumenauer Quotes
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I've learned never say never.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
