George Monbiot Quotes

So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

George Monbiot

• Identity
• Ashamed
• Supposed
• Odds
• Troubled
• Discarded
• Retained
• Deviant

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• If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Year

• I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Political
  • Goal
  • Writer

• The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Eyes
  • Moving
  • Senses

• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Financial
  • Fight
  • Others

• In that year 1865 John Muir offered to buy from his brother … a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • History
  • Free
  • Brother

• Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • Power
  • Winning

• I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Time
  • May
  • Stupid

• I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Important
  • Latin
  • Text

• I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Work
  • Professional

• The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Peace
  • Police

• It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Winning

• I think there's room for people to love 'Transformers' and love 'Insidious.' They coexist in a happy way; in other words, my movies wouldn't exist if 'Transformers' didn't exist, because they're an alternative to that. They're not better or worse, they're just different.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• As a little girl, I was athletic: 'Oh, mom, look at me. I can do cartwheels.' I was one of those annoying kids. I craved the spotlight. I had the feeling since I was little that the stage was my home.

  

  Ashley Leggat
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Girl

• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  

  Charles Mingus
  • Simple
  • Creativity

• To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Book
  • Twilight

• Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

  

  Donna Rice
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

  

  Phillip E. Johnson
  • Education
  • Democracy
  • Serious

• I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.'

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.

  

  Peter Asher
  • Music
  • Together

• I'm a little older now and I think I've lightened up a bit as I'm getting older.

  

  John Banville
  • Up

• Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

  

  Jason Fried

• In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge. I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Singing

• So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

  

  George Monbiot
  • Identity
  • Ashamed
  • Supposed