Jeff Goodell Quotes

In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

Jeff Goodell

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Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

Steven Pinker

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I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

Ron Perlman

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The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Ronald Blythe

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I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece.

Mary Beard

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The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

Martin Rees

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That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

Desiderius Erasmus

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The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are.

Cory Booker

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I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

Wyatt Cenac

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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

Sean Penn

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'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.

Nina Tassler

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The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

Renzo Piano

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