Barry Commoner Quotes
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop -
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
Bam Margera -
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe -
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel Johnson -
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim -
I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
Kate del Castillo -
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
Marc Andreesen -
The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
L. Neil Smith -
As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I am a big music nerd.
Olivia Wilde -
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
Abel Korzeniowski -
When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
Gary Johnson -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
Ike Skelton
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In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.
Margaret Thatcher -
I was taken around and shown things as a 'useful idiot' … that’s what my role was … I can’t understand why I was so gullible.
Doris Lessing -
I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.
Maude Apatow -
To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
X. J. Kennedy -
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Barry Commoner