Frances Beinecke Quotes
Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.
