Fuel Quotes - Page 16

• I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mean, Sleep, Smell

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

  James Buchan

  Cities, People, Toil

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• Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

  Gary Busey

  Three, Pieces, Body

  FaceBook post by Gary Busey from Apr 20, 2013

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• I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

  Fred Durst

  School, Kids, Guy

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• You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

  Fred Durst

  Art, Careers, People

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• Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Fossils, Cost

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.

  Josh Fox

  Thinking, Energy, Transition

  "Sundance ’10 | “GASLAND” Director Josh Fox on Being a One Man Crew". www.indiewire.com. January 22, 2010.

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• We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

  Frank Gehry

  Starting Over, Healthy, Insecurity

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• It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

  James Hansen

  Long, Energy, Burning

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• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

  Jack Herer

  Burning, Fossils, Carbon

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• Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'

  Jennifer Hudson

  Body, Steps, Reason

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• But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Fire, Glasses, Guy

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

  Alicia Keys

  Feelings, Energy, Alive

  "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

  Annie Lennox

  Fashion, Stuff, Appearance

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2009.

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• Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ideas, People, Political

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• The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

  Dan Lipinski

  Facts, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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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, Fossils, Nuclear

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• Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Car, Sloth

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

  Elon Musk

  Electric Motors, Cells, Energy

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

  Elon Musk

  Needs, Cost, Matter

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

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• My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

  Elon Musk

  Vision, Important, Mars

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

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• By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Believe, Years, Touching

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• Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Dream, Powerful, Creating

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• You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.

  Sean Penn

  Struggle, Add, Actors

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