Amory Lovins Quotes

When asked if we have enough time to prevent catastrophe, she'd always say that we have exactly enough time - starting now

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• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Design

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Goal
  • Conversation

• Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Like
  • Looks

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
  • Care
  • Modern

• As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Mother
  • Artist
  • Feelings

• They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Song
  • Dance
  • Tomorrow

• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Pretty
  • Actor
  • Grateful

• When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Professional
  • Paris
  • Plant

• Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Game
  • Games
  • Selfish

• If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Power
  • Happy

• I never had planned for my life and my career.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Career
  • My Life

• I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

  

  Ice T
  • Things
  • Records
  • Lived

• I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Man
  • Tyrant

• America rules the world - by force.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • America
  • Rules

• I did loads of auditions and I didn't get called back. I still get giddy at all the people I get to work with, and I'm still enjoying the work and enjoying life too much that I don't feel like I've done that much.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• This is strictly personal opinion, not company policy, but I do think that we could do with having a USIA on steroids.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • Opinion

• How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Time
  • Father
  • Respect

• That was a game changer right there, that was a huge difference for us.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Game
  • Difference

• When asked if we have enough time to prevent catastrophe, she'd always say that we have exactly enough time - starting now

  

  Amory Lovins
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