William Barrett Quotes

Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

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• As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Resources
  • Digital

• Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Poor
  • Because
  • Resources

• The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • More
  • Resources

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • May
  • Wealth
  • Products

• Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Energy
  • Resources
  • Most

• I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Believe
  • Resources
  • Wealthy

• Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Resources
  • Hubris

• Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Age
  • Cancer
  • Tobacco

• We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Water
  • Environment
  • Air

• The eyeball itself is fine. There's damage to the surrounding areas, but they weren't able to report if there is serious damage. I don't know what the time frame is for him to play again. I would bet there is significant swelling.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Damage

• Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • New York
  • Damage
  • Flooding

• We did not effectively manage our licensing program, ... While we negotiated good deals, introduced great products in the marketplace, we failed to provide the retail marketing support and monitoring that was needed.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • Good
  • Great
  • Support

• Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Time
  • Health
  • Products

• There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

  

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
  • Brain
  • Damage
  • TV

• To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

  

  Cherrie Moraga
  • Dangerous
  • Act
  • Damage

• Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Nature
  • Trust

• Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

  

  Rumi
  • Death
  • Afraid
  • Damage

• There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Experience
  • Train
  • Resources

• Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.

  

  Richard Widmark
  • Girl
  • Knows
  • Difficult

• Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

  

  William Barrett
  • Resources
  • Products
  • Damage