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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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 -
Reinforcement is being right.
B. F. Skinner
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Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.
Paul Gauguin -
Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
Pardis Sabeti -
The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.
Jake Epstein -
The fight against global warming is a humanitarian issue - how the planet can be preserved - and it is also an issue of considerable economic importance, of what we call green growth.
Francois Hollande -
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