Al Gore Quotes
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more - if more should be required - the future of human civilization is at stake.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.
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The iPad is an amazing phenomenon. It is disrupting the enterprise. If you are an average employee, you can do anything for HR and Finance on the iPad.
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I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.
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I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.
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Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.
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The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more - if more should be required - the future of human civilization is at stake.
