Barry Commoner Quotes
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
Naval Ravikant -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant -
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
Fareed Zakaria -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
Zach LaVine
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
Orson F. Whitney -
I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
Rand Paul -
I don't think I have a black-hat image.
Harold Simmons -
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
Pamela Stephenson -
The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
Magdalena Neuner
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
Ian Hacking -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
Walter O'Brien -
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Ralph Bakshi -
I never felt like I had a mother.
Quincy Jones
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We need to get big money out of Washington.
Conner Eldridge -
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
Frederick Soddy -
There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.
David Grinspoon -
I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.
Jim Courier -
I am very glad that the criticism is what it is. It is all right that way. In complete opposition to our direction. Otherwise we De Stijl-artists would have nothing to do. I got another impression from your letter, but it is much better this way. There we see again: we have straightly to oppose the whole to-do, à part.
Piet Mondrian -
All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
Barry Commoner