Zero Quotes - Page 8

• The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Trying, Nuclear, Destroying

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• To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

  David Korten

  Taken, Ecosystems, May

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• It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny.

  Charles Sumner

  Destiny, Humanity, Buttons

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• Zero, zero belief in myself. And it's changed somewhat, but there's still a lot of that in me.

  Larry David

  Belief, Changed, Stills

  "Who is Larry David?". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• What happens when it’s 2 a.m. and you’re alone in a hotel room with the devil’s minibar? Minibar – one; Marissa – zero.

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Devil, Rooms, Hotel

  "Marissa Jaret Winokur: My Close Encounter with a Minibar" by Marissa Jaret Winokur, people.com. July 6, 2009.

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• Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Brother, Lying, Able

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• By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

  David Byrne

  Talking, Feelings, Scratches

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

  Tim Cook

  Giving Up, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking, People, Acting

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• The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were "underwater" on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.

  Janet Yellen

  Home, Average, Negative

  Janet Yellen's Speech At the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. October 17, 2014.

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• I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Hype, Tolerance, Want

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• What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

  Ken Wilber

  Country, Years, Kkk

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're Jewish, you have a small smile on your face. Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.

  Mel Brooks

  Hurt, Feelings, Three

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• We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

  Bill Drayton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Diversity

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• The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

  David Lynch

  Hurt, Pain, Real

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What we need is a strong defense, but right now there is zero chance of an invasion by another country and right now we have more firepower than all other countries put together.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Strong, Together

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use

  Hilary Benn

  Working Together, Energy, Needs

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• I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Journey, People, Feelings

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Racing, Motor

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• Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Followers, Overrated

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• Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.

  Vicki Myron

  Pain, Moving, Decision

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• It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

  Lisa Unger

  Children, Fall, Grieving

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• And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

  Eric Bolling

  Buddhism, Names, Would Be

  "Fox Host: Christians Have Killed ‘Zero’ People In The Name Of Religion" by Catherine Thompson, talkingpointsmemo.com. February 9, 2015.

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• Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.

  Oscar Goodman

  Vegas, Hatred, Tolerance

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• Meaning to send a thank-you note but then not doing it is exactly the same as never thinking to send one - that person is still receiving zero thank you notes.

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Thank You, Thinking, Receiving

  "'Adulting': How to navigate the complicated realm of the grown-up" by Williams Brown, www.today.com. June 19, 2013.

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