Matt Ridley Quotes

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Matt Ridley

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PeopleGreenEnvironmentGoalLiving

One chance is all you need.

Jesse Owens

ChanceYouNeed

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

John McGraw

FightHotRightOutSportsmanship

I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.

Anna Kendrick

LoveGameThinkAmericanDream

I'm a huge sci-fi geek, and I also really get into all of the alien shows on the History Channel where you see air force pilots talking about UFOs - I love that stuff.

Matt Lanter

LoveHistoryTalkingYouAlienSee

I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

PeopleThinkTaxSome PeopleTaxes

In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.

Miranda Seymour

LovePoetryTo LoveMortalityGraves

Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.

Joss Whedon

TeamStartIsolationEndMatter

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Jasper Johns

GoodYouArtistDesireEverything

Girls are told they're not skinny enough, or they hear, 'She's old. She's boring. We've had her. She's not tiny anymore.' A lot of people don't take into account the vulnerability of these young girls.

Coco Rocha

PeopleEnoughYoungBoringSheOld

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

Bradley Chicho

SkyBlackUniverseBallsCottonJet

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

Arthur Miller

LoveChildStandYouWillSpirit

Health management is my passion, and I hope to further my career in that area in the future.

Philomena Kwao

FuturePassionHopeHealthCareer

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