Range Quotes - Page 17

• We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

  David Suzuki

  Addiction, Bags, Use

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• Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

  Sara Teasdale

  Happiness, Beauty, Joy

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

  James Thurber

  Thank You, Children, Baby Boy

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• I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.

  Linus Torvalds

  Long, Vision, Trying

  "The Pragmatist of Free Software". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.tlug.jp. September 30, 1997.

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• Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

  Yani Tseng

  Monday, Morning, Mean

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• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  Edgard Varese

  Important, Use, Want

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• Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

  Tim Vine

  Style, Different, Comedy

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• As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

  Andrew Weil

  Age, Care, Good Health

  Andrew Weil, M.D. (2010). “You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care”, p.8, Penguin

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• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  Jack Welch

  Dream, Commitment, Long

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

  Ron White

  Dad, Years, Houston

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• I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

  Rainn Wilson

  Thinking, People, Creeps

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

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• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Play, Balls

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

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• I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.

  Robert Winston

  Country, Korea, People

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• Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.

  Julian Baggini

  Fall, Long, Culture

  "The science of ignorance" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2008.

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• Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

  Geoff Mulgan

  People, Tasks, Needs

  "The UK economy can still create jobs" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2012.

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• I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.

  John Oliver

  Expression, Horror, Accents

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• Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.

  Pablo Neruda

  Memories, Eye, Kissing

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• ...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Eye, Men, Doe

  Thomas Wolfe (1997). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Emotional, Funny Harry Potter

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• A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Powerful

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• The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.73, Penguin

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• If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.

  Anne Lamott

  Feelings, Body, Entitled

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.74, Penguin

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• There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

  Robert W. Service

  Travel, Heart, Men

  Robert William Service, “The Men That Don't Fit In”

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• The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Imagination, Expectations

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• It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

  Robin Hobb

  Memories, Night, Men

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