Barry Commoner Quotes
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
Quotes to Explore
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
