Andrew Nikiforuk Quotes

The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.

Andrew Nikiforuk

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There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

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In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

John Oliver

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The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Max Jacob

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You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

Matt Mullenweg

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What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

Merrie Spaeth

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Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

John Thorn

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Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn.

Stephan Pastis

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I want to play a character that is cold. I think there are sides of me that are like that. I'm a fan of the actor Edward Norton, and if you see his early works, he plays a lot of those roles.

Song Joong-ki

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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Sigmund Freud

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I am humbled by the prospect of serving those who have borne the battle, those American men and women who have sacrificed so much.

Robert Wilkie

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Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

Robert Winston

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To write about a place, you have to live there.

Jonathan Ames

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