Barry Commoner Quotes
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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Some people, they just don't get a joke.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
