Frances Beinecke Quotes

Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

Frances Beinecke

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• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?

  

  Abigail Johnson
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• I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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  • You
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• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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  • Fire

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
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• I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
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• I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
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• I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!

  

  Halima Aden
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• Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
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• God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

  

  Saint Augustine
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• Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
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• My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Care
  • Generation

• I was MARRIED for TWO FUCKING YEARS! Hell would be like Club Med!

  

  Sam Kinison

• Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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