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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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Turn in your guns at your local church.
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Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.
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Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.
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When I was shooting 'The Dark Knight,' I always felt like I was shooting an intimate drama for some reason. The scenes were all intimate, and they were always between a few individuals.
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Land-use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics were a century ago.
