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Maurice Strong Quotes

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: canadian
Birth: April 29, 1929 - November 27, 2015

Topics

Me Now Development Almost Most

When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'

Writing Book Thought You Early Down

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

Up Industry Where Another Rises

I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.

Solange Knowles

Creative Control Stand Bad Early

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

Learning Experience Song Process

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

Trust Government Solution You Back

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

Michaela Watkins

Think Thinking Way Problem-Solving

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

Confidence Future Past Start Think

I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.

Live Music Listening You Play Way

I do love horror movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Love Man Dress Blue Movies Group

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

Life Character Time Moments Acting

There isn't really a stylistic recipe for fonts to make them particularly suitable to be translated into different scripts.

Recipe Different Make Them Really

With 'Hannibal,' it's like reactive scoring so I don't get ahead. I don't read a script; I don't want to know what's going to happen until its happening in front of me and I'm able to have an instrument in my hands that I'm playing to make some kind of a map, some sort of tonal map, that I can then build on.

Me Hands I Can Know Want Kind

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