Ellen MacArthur Quotes
The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle.
Quotes to Explore
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
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You give me the awful impression, I hate to have say it, of someone who hasn't read any of the arguments against your position ever.
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I love my house and stay back home when I get time off shoots. I hardly party. I am not 19 anymore.
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And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.
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'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.
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There's something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.
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Sometimes, if I really just need to unwind and kind of watch something that isn't gonna stress me out or have drama in it, I watch 'Spongebob.'
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I was kind of a tough girl. And I guess that came through, like, moving around, my parents getting a divorce, different step-families, and stuff like that. I'd been through a little bit more than most people who are just from Laguna Beach.
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My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.
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I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics.
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
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When I'm on stage, it's such a spiritual moment that I hope, even when we hit 'Fallon,' you can feel that through the TV. I have this whole horn section that's part of New Power Generation; I have an amazing crew of musicians behind me. It's their energy, too.
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The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle.
