Barry Commoner Quotes
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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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.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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.
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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.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.
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I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
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Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.
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To convince another part of the world that Bollywood is not just jokers who break into song and dance was very difficult. I'm literally ploughing the ground and making people understand that Indian actors are not a joke.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
