Lynn Jurich Quotes
There is a new wave of environmental consumers I like to call Pocketbook Environmentalists. They're going green primarily because it makes good financial sense, but the fact that it benefits their families' health and the environment also makes them feel good.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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Work is what saves you.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.'
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Can I swim against the stream, be good in bad times and places?
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There is a new wave of environmental consumers I like to call Pocketbook Environmentalists. They're going green primarily because it makes good financial sense, but the fact that it benefits their families' health and the environment also makes them feel good.
