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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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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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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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 like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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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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Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
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We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.
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I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that.
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Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.
