Clive Thompson Quotes
Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.Clive Thompson
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
Karen Mills -
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
Ed Royce -
I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
Gail Sheehy -
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
Ian McShane -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
Dan Buettner
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant -
I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
Barry McGee -
I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
Garrison Keillor
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
Fernando Botero -
You were born as the one you are.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
Dan Rather
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
Penn Jillette -
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
Brian Greene -
On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.
Charles J. Shields -
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
Steve Earle -
Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.
Clive Thompson