Planets Quotes - Page 40

• I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.

  Drew Barrymore

  Song, Thinking, Car

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."

  Eyvind Kang

  Mountain, Wildlife, Worst

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

  Britta Phillips

  Sound, Albums, Want

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

  Mark Kozelek

  Years, Two, Records

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

  Ray McGovern

  Apathy, Pay, Citizenship

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

  David Pajo

  Metals

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I think that as a teenager in England, it's very hard to avoid Europe. You see Barcelona, and you see all those places as a youngster. You go there on school trips and everything, but America is like a different planet.

  Simon Taylor-Davis

  Teenager, School, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

  Jessa Crispin

  Men, Deals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

  Jessa Crispin

  Country, Email, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resources - we first and foremost need to change the incentives.

  Ramez Naam

  People, Trying, Needs

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

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• Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

  Ramez Naam

  Energy, Climate, Burning

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

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• If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.

  Ramez Naam

  Technology, Want, Able

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

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• I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out of this situation with a richer humanity with less impact on the planet, but now I think it has to be paired with effective policy in order to achieve that.

  Ramez Naam

  Believe, Technology, Thinking

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

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• I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined.

  Ramez Naam

  Years, Different, States

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

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• What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

  Helene D. Gayle

  People, Focus, Going Out

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there.

  Peter Diamandis

  Real, War, Fighting

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.

  Peter Diamandis

  Moving, Body, Earth

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.

  Kevin Bales

  People, Growth, World

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He was embarrassed about me seeing the comics at Forbidden Planet.

  Francoise Mouly

  Eye, Son, Hands

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Ain't a soul on the planet that's better than another.

  LeCrae

  Soul

  Song: Broken, 2014

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• I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me.

  Jeremy Scott

  Ideas, Goal, Design

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this planet is coded in a double helix with a sugar phosphate backbone. And that codes whether you become a bacteria, an orange, a lemon, a Lemur, a Cow, a sheep, a human being, a politician, any one of these things is all coded in this four-letter code.

  Juan Enriquez

  Orange, Sheep, Bacteria

  Source: bigthink.com

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• So we say, oh, my goodness; we think we've found another Earth-like planet. We will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.

  Morgan Freeman

  Dream, Strong, Thinking

  "Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, nhpr.org. July 3, 2012.

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• Yes, it benefits the planet, but I don't lead with the green message anymore because I think there's a more evergreen way to look at it, which is efficiency.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  Thinking, Looks, Benefits

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Real, Rap

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