Barry Commoner Quotes
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
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“The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never surrendered to anything in life – that was what life demanded of you – surrender. For reward it gave you love, this swarthy, skin – deep love that exacted remorseless penalties.”
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Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.
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I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.
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I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
