George Monbiot Quotes
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.
