Wayne Swan Quotes
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.
Quotes to Explore
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
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America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
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I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was feeling so inadequate in everything I did. I was afraid that I was going to come out being this crazy, disorganized, neurotic person. So it was revelatory that I worked more than 50 hours a week and I still spent a tonne of time with my kids. It was like, "Why do I feel one way when the reality is so different?"
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I'm no role model.
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.
