Ed Rendell Quotes
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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I always have issues with trust.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.
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When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
