Charles C. Mann Quotes
The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A. is required to publish a list of 'stationary sources' of air pollution, of which the most important are power plants.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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The test of the worth of a school is not the amount of knowledge it imparts, but the self-activity it calls forth.
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful-many more.
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When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
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I think we have a tax policy that was designed before Microsoft even went public. I think we've got to change - we're at a huge disadvantage around the world.
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The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A. is required to publish a list of 'stationary sources' of air pollution, of which the most important are power plants.
