Planets Quotes - Page 18

• I believe that the way we choose to live significantly affects the health of our bodies and the health of our planet. I do my best to eat and live as naturally as possible, but it's not always easy. At the same time, I want to live fashionably and surrounded by the highest quality.

  Misty Hyman

  Believe, Quality, Body

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Misty Hyman on Why She Supports the Live Good Mission". The Live Good Interview, www.livegoodinc.com.

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• Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Country, Opportunity, People

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• There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

  Alex Jones

  People, Genius, Commodity

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• At a certain age your parents seem like the most embarrassing thing on the whole entire planet, and you want to be nowhere near them. But at the end of the day, you know that you can't literally do anything without them. You love your parents through and through, and they love you probably even more than you could ever imagine until you're a parent yourself.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Love You, Parent, The End Of The Day

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• I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.

  Mike Leigh

  Optimistic, Destroying, I Can

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Animal, Water, Community

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

  Maurice Strong

  Fate, Islands, Sea

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• This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying Sun, into which her two inner companions of the solar system have already plunged to a fiery death. The Twilight of the Gods is history; and our planet drifts on and on into that oblivion from which nothing escapes, to which time itself may be dedicated in the final cosmic reckoning.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Twilight, Two, Dying

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• The Planet drifts to random insect doom.

  William S. Burroughs

  Apocalypse, Insects, Doom

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.187, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

  Alex Garland

  Eye, Men, Looks

  "Fictional character: Sergeant Farrell". "28 Days Later...", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The spread of yoga is the symbol of a changing world. It represents a world where knowledge flows, without restriction of country, creed or class. It represents a world where people come together across boundaries, for causes and concerns that unite the planet.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Yoga, Class

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• We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

  John Hodgman

  Reality, Long, Germs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Thinking, Denial

  "Russell Brand On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2010.

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• The Black Eyed Peas sell thousands of seats in every country on the planet. You can't get nervous. We're all succeeding in all different parts of our careers. Just because I produce Nas and John Legend and Justin Timberlake doesn't mean it will change the dynamic of the Peas.

  will.i.am

  Country, Mean, Careers

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.

  Sam Worthington

  Smart, Games, Jake

  Source: collider.com

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• As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions, then the next question is okay, what are we going to do about it?

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Next, Scales, Okay

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact. So we've done a lot of things without even realizing it, and yes, just being unusual, as you say, does not put you above, in a sense, any of the other organisms with whom we share this planet.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Impact, Doe, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  People, Disease, Species

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it's microbes. They're the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Successful, May, Asteroids

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 24, 2014.

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• Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.

  Ray Manzarek

  Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• Jesus doesn't just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

  Louie Giglio

  Leadership, Christian, Song

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• The past is another planet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Past, Religion

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Ninth Episode: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth". Documentary, May 4, 2014.

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• Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present no small difficulty. For these theories were not adequate unless they also conceived certain equalizing circles, which made the planet appear to move at all times with uniform velocity neither on its deferent sphere nor about its own epicycle's center.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Moving, Science, Data

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• Belize, with the help of God and the support of its people, will stand upright and will do its duty and help bring peace, stability and prosperity to our region and to wider circles of our planet Earth.

  George Cadle Price

  Independent, Circles, People

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• Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.

  Matthew Kelly

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Night

  Matthew Kelly (2004). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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