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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

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• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actor
  • Where
  • Rehearsal

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Control
  • Taxes

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Different
  • Myself

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Freedom

• See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Together
  • Humanity
  • Fight

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Real
  • Father
  • Career

• Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Work
  • Opinion
  • Improve

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • Nice
  • Him
  • Hilarious

• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dumb

• Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Cancer

• One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • Long
  • Light

• Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.

  

  Peter Roskam
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Lives

• I've learnt I can compete with the best in the world.

  

  Heather Watson
  • World
  • Compete

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities