Enele Sopoaga Quotes
If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?
Quotes to Explore
-
The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
-
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
-
America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
-
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
-
One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
-
I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
-
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
-
Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
-
I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
-
I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
-
I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.
-
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
-
I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
-
Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
-
I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.
-
It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.
-
I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
-
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
-
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
-
Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
-
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
-
I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
-
'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
-
If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?
