Zac Goldsmith Quotes
Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.
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By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
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Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.
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On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
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There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
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A prophet such as we could use again today,strong,zealous,angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders,the masses indeed the whole world.(Letter to his pastor Julius Schubring ,1846 regarding Medelssohn's choral work 'Elijah' published that year)
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
