Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.Alex Shoumatoff
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
M.I.A. -
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice -
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
Ian Mckellen -
I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
Sam Smith -
At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
Cara Delevingne
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
Baron Hill -
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
Jackie Earle Haley -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Wassily Kandinsky -
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
Bayard Taylor -
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte -
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
Randy Pausch -
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
Victoria Pendleton -
Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
Iris Apfel -
I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
Aage Bohr
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I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.
Marc Platt -
When I was 3 years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.
Jack Roy -
No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
Larry Hogan -
In the summer of 2000, four college friends and I grew mustaches, bought highway patrol uniforms, and shot a $1.2 million budgeted independent film called 'Super Troopers.'
Jay Chandrasekhar -
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
Laura Esquivel -
Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.
Alex Shoumatoff