Al Gore Quotes
For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes - including those for social security and unemployment compensation - and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes - principally on CO
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
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Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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I'm a huge sushi fan. I have it every couple of days.
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I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.
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Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again — but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.
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I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
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For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes - including those for social security and unemployment compensation - and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes - principally on CO
