Barry Commoner Quotes
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.
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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed.
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
