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.

Ellen MacArthur

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• Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Win

• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• 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.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Power

• For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • History
  • Poetry

• The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Myself
  • See

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Party

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Looking

• If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Cute
  • Fine

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Work
  • Practice

• Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Diversity

• The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
  • Nature
  • Changes

• There is less in this than meets the eye.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Eye
  • Less
  • Meets

• 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.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Leader

• Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Hate

• In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • City
  • Car
  • Bike

• Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Well
  • Often

• It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way, blunts the edges ever so slightly.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Time
  • Heal
  • Wound

• I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Needs

• 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.

  

  Ellen MacArthur
  • Food
  • Exist
  • Resources