George Monbiot Quotes
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our failures humanise us, and they connect us to one another.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
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I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.
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I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.
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What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
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It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.
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I was always into sports, and as a sportsperson, you need to be fit to survive and play from start to finish.
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I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.
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A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
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It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
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Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
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I love action. I love doing fight scenes; I always have. I love it.
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Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
