Barry Commoner Quotes
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.Barry Commoner
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
Tammy Duckworth -
I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
Barbara Boxer
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
H. G. Bissinger -
What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
Rachel McAdams -
There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
Ian Mckellen -
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
Bebe Rexha -
I was a normal American nerd.
Jack Herer
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All my life I have fought corruption.
A. K. Antony -
No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
Zola Jesus -
I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein II -
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Nathan Fillion -
I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
Olivia Culpo
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If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
Lenny Kravitz -
The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country. And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren't.
Bocafloja -
I am not an atheist - I think I'm happily confused and a work in progress; I'm sort of more agnostic. I do think that science has become the lens through which we see the world, more and more.
Dan Brown -
It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner