Jim Costa Quotes

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.

Jim Costa

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LimitsWeekLongExplorationOil

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Anatole France

BetterUnderstandLittleThanLot

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

John Lewis

ActionNeedMovementDirect

The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce.

Robert Green Ingersoll

TruthManTruth IsWrongWillRight

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Stephen Chbosky

GoodJobMeSummerSpecialProject

When I was a kid, I loved Nintendo.

Shinsuke Nakamura

LovedKidNintendo

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

Joseph Hume

I AmAdmitFairProtectionPeculiar

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.

Jonathan Krisel

ChangeProcessLookWhyAlwaysJust

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

JoJo Siwa

TomorrowDoingPlanNowAheadYears

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

Douglas Brinkley

BestEnvironmentalGreenThinkYou

The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' into best-selling novels and successful films.

Deborah Tannen

SupportSisterConnectionSecrets

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.

Chris Kilham

WorthLandOilResourcesMining

The United States is going to keep on with its imperialist ways.

Boots Riley

UnitedKeepGoingUnited StatesWays

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