Coal Quotes - Page 15

• Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.

  Thomas Frank

  Agency, Sea, Oil

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.14, MIT Press

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• Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Names, Support, Trying

  "Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind". usatoday30.usatoday.com.

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• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Home, Voice, Done

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Add, Way, Nuance

  "Releasing My Inner Emeril: Lagasse Grilled headsho" by Perry Garfinkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2009.

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• If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

  James Lovelock

  Oil, Fuel, Fossils

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• America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

  Charles Duhigg

  America, Arabia, Saudis

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• The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

  Moby

  Average, Years, Expectancy

  "I long for that sober connection" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2008.

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• It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

  Elon Musk

  Running, Ideas, Waiting

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

  Jayma Mays

  Growing Up, Home, Piano

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Pigs, Years

  "Bill Nye on Sandy, Climate Change and the 2012 Election". Interview with Richard Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Eight, Lifetime

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• I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

  Ted Turner

  Party, Years, Needs

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• Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

  David Suzuki

  Oil, Priorities, Energy

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• First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.

  Mitt Romney

  Independent, Oil, America

  Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 30, 2012.

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• I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Stars, Children, Coal Miners

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• After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

  Drew Carey

  Games, Shows, Mines

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• The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

  Bono

  Oil, Cost, Environment

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• As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

  Annie Besant

  Memories, Brain, Perception

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.217, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Coal is my worst nightmare.

  Steven Chu

  Worst Nightmares, Energy, Caps

  "Nightmare On Coal Street". www.desmogblog.com. December 19, 2008.

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• The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Weapons, Lord, Violent

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.245, Macmillan

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• Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Bridges, Oil, Next

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• Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.

  Steig Larsson

  Eye, Voice, Long

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• Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that’s when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna had turned me into a mockingjay.

  Suzanne Collins

  Air, Color, Wings

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• These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Railroads, Ems, Trouble

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• --I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.

  David James Duncan

  Crush, Letting Go, Believe

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