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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John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
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On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.
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I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
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That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.
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Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive' is inspired by the fact that a lot of people are being killed on both sides in Iraq and the average person in the States that I run into is a lot more concerned with how big their TV is. That's pretty weird. I look at my granddad's meticulously clipped headlines from World War II almost daily and I see that every action in that war was a two-inch bold print headline even if it wasn't one of the biggest battles. It was all major news. The scale of this war is a lot smaller, but someone being killed or a group of people being killed might be Page 3 or Page 12 news in the U.S.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
