Jeff Goodell Quotes

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

Jeff Goodell

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Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Jim Cooper

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If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

John Doolittle

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I had a stereotype in my mind of what a 'Star Trek' fans is, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

John Cho

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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

John Podhoretz

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Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Robert Carlyle

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That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

Chris O'Dowd

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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Anne Lamott

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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Peter Drucker

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My husband is from Venezuela and he cries when he needs to cry!

Paz Vega

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To me, I feel like everything I touch will do good. Because my heart and my passion is all in the right spot. And you can't go wrong with that. But maybe I'm naive.

Linda Perry

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The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Kris Kristofferson

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