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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David Ortiz is almost like a superhero. The type of love that he gives and everything, the positivity that's around him - a lot of people admire him and respect him.
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. There are some things we can't control and some things that do happen to us that we can't take back, but how we deal with it afterwards is our future... I think anybody can do anything they want if they stay positive and determined.
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Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
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Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.
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The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.
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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.
