Fuel Quotes - Page 12

• People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

  Warren Buffett

  Golf, Skills, People

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• Conoco will build a $75 million plant to see if a process to convert natural gas to liquid fuel is profitable. It has to be. In California, gasoline is so expensive that people are trying to run their cars on cocaine.

  Argus Hamilton

  Running, California, People

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• I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.

  Hyman Rickover

  Teacher, Responsibility, Men

  "Energy Resources and Our Future". Remarks at a Banquet of the Annual Scientific Assembly of the Minnesota State Medical Association, www.resilience.org. May 14, 1957.

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• I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.

  Warryn Campbell

  Real, Heart, Machines

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Car, Way, Like You

  "Dead Can Dance". Interview with Ned Raggett, pitchfork.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I loved working with Malcolm [McDowell]. He's been such an important person in my life. I mean, not just as someone I was married to, which is huge, and the father of my children, which is even bigger, but also as a friend and an inspiration and somebody who probably helped to fuel something that all my reading as a child had already started, which was a love of England and the world of the theater over there, which I became involved with through him and probably because of him.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Children, Father, Inspiration

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.

  Ramez Naam

  Aquifers, Years, Water

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.

  Juan Enriquez

  Thinking, Teeth, Textiles

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them. ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.

  Richard Branson

  Airline Business, People, Trying

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.

  Richard Branson

  Dirty, Past, Thinking

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there's only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines.

  Richard Branson

  Mean, World, Pumps

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes.

  Richard Branson

  Airplane, Car, Easy

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.

  Richard Branson

  Technology, People, Trying

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed - with energy and engagement - and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

  Jim Loehr

  Inspirational, Growth, Energy

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• We can all make powerful choices. We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate, or anyone else for our outcomes. It’s within our ability to cause everything to change. Rather than letting past hurtful experiences sap our energy and sabotage our success, we can use them to fuel positive, constructive change.

  Darren Hardy

  Powerful, Fate, Past

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jun 02, 2014

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• GM is pursuing gasoline-savings solutions on many fronts on the way to our ultimate vision of hydrogen fuel cell-powered transportation. E85 ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline and is a renewable, domestic fuel that can enhance the nation's economy and energy security.

  Joseph Lowery

  Hydrogen Fuel, Cells, Vision

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• A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Hiding Something, Ideas, Transparency

  "The Fix Live". live.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2016.

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• The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Men, Force Fields

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The promise to use the money we currently send to Brussels and invest it instead on the priorities of the British people - principally in the NHS - and to cut VAT on domestic fuel. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

  Michael Gove

  Cutting, Nhs, People

  "Brexit live: Michael Gove promises NHS extra £100m a week by 2020 in leadership bid launch" by Jessica Elgot, Mark Tran and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2016.

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• You have to eat, all day, and you have to have the right fuel to get you through different physical and mental obstacles that fighters have to get through. Just dealing with the diet alone becomes an all-encompassing, fully immersive experience. And then, there's the physical side of it, having to put your body through everything required to make you look like a fighter.

  Jonathan Tucker

  Different, Looks, Body

  Source: collider.com

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• I get my fuel and inspiration from children, they are our future.

  David Batstone

  Children, Inspiration, Our Future

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success.

  Tara Lipinski

  Use, Failing, Mishaps

  "Tara Lipinski​: On Dealing with Stress, Using Failure to Fuel Success​​, and How she Keeps her Head Clear". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

  Joe Elliott

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

  Patrick Leahy

  Retirement, Justice, Six Months

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Brother, People, Campaign Finance

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