Aldo Leopold Quotes
Land-use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics were a century ago.
Quotes to Explore
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
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Holy cow!
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.
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I'm an outdoorsy guy, but I also enjoy the average teenager stuff - video games, movies, hanging with friends. I'm just a normal guy!
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The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
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My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.
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I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
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There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.
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Land-use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics were a century ago.
