Environment Quotes - Page 17

• As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

  Jack White

  Artist, Style, Coming Out

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.

  Dave Matthews

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.

  Bill Maher

  Speaks Out, Issues, Ozone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My thinking is, government is really there to do the things that people absolutely can't do for themselves. And that's mostly involved with the things that might kill you. And what might kill me? The environment and terrorism.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Government, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 13, 2006.

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• I'm just a guy that grew up in a total fun-loving environment. I try to create that everywhere I go. Basically what I'm doing is a reflection of me as an individual, me naturally. I'm not staging or putting on anything. I think my approach to the game is an all-out approach, whatever it takes to win. I've always been that way.

  Dave Parker

  Fun, Reflection, Winning

  "Baseball Preview : Q&A With Dave Parker". Interview with Robyn Norwood, articles.latimes.com. April 07, 1991.

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• I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

  Benjamin Carson

  Evil People, Racist, Detroit

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Monsters, May

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• Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Party, Healthy, Green

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• I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.

  Stephen Stills

  Letting Go, People, Studios

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• The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

  Craig Venter

  Fallen

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• Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.

  Leonard Susskind

  Confused, Different, May

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• All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.

  Francisco Costa

  People, Connections, Stubborn

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• I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.

  David Stern

  Sports, Gay, Men

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• I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

  Candice Olson

  Believe, Better Life, Our Family

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• In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

  Andrew Motion

  Powerful, Interesting, Needs

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• Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

  Steven Holl

  Unique, Opportunity, Princeton University

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• The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

  James T. Hubbell

  Art, Our World, Way

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• I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.

  Harry Bertoia

  Moving, Yield, Appreciate

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• I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

  Desiree Rogers

  Thinking, People, Together

  "Voices of Power: White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers". Interview with Lois Romano, www.washingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.

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• Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

  Clay Shirky

  Thinking, Important, Email

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• Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have.

  Gil Evans

  Inspiration, Party, Artist

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• Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fire, Desire, Wheels

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• In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion.

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Country, Children, Heart

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• It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

  Troy Polamalu

  Beautiful, Prayer, Perfect

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• We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

  Herman E. Daly

  Needs, Clean, Get Rich

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