Frances Beinecke Quotes
Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.Frances Beinecke
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
Gayle Forman -
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
Victor Cousin -
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
Barbra Streisand -
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall -
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
Florence King -
I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
Gary Sinise
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
Nate Silver -
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
Yuichiro Miura -
I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
Irina Shayk -
I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
Zooey Deschanel
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
Gary Zukav -
Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
Warren G -
In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
Valeria Mazza -
The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
Jack Ramsay -
I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
Hans Vestberg
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I am in an industry that makes women feel bad about themselves, absolutely.
Bobbi Brown -
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith. … Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
Martin Luther -
Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.
Douglas Rushkoff -
I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.
Salma Hayek -
The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution.
Van Jones -
Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
Frances Beinecke