Frances Beinecke Quotes

I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Problem
  • Fall
  • Air

• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actor
  • Where
  • Rehearsal

• Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • She
  • Career
  • Style

• Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • World
  • Stop
  • See

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Together
  • Success
  • Team

• I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

  

  Jim Walsh
  • Believe

• It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

  

  Jean Anouilh
  • Courage
  • Greatness

• Ritual dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.

  

  Barbara Myerhoff
  • Reality
  • Separate
  • Ritual

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Long
  • Art
  • Experience

• I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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  • Change
  • Health