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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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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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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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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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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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
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Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.
