Roberto Unger Quotes

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.

Roberto Unger

Recitation: by Male by Female

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RainPeopleOpportunitiesTreesReal

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

Jeremy Irons

BrotherSisterDoingAlwaysWithout

The law is the law whether you're dealing with a multi-million-pound fraud or a car deal where someone feels diddled because their exhaust falls off on the way home.

Robert Rinder

HomeCarLawSomeoneYouWay

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Angelina Jolie

LifeHomeMy LifeTryingYouKnow

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

Amy Bloom

StoryShortYouLightsWaySee

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Romesh Gunesekera

PoetryPlaceKindIslandLandLevel

The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.

Luis Alberto Urrea

LightActionStandLiteratureHide

I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face.

Colin Trevorrow

InfluenceLookingFaceThinkYouGo

I've always been a leader. If someone was getting picked on in school, I'd try to deflate that situation by inviting that kid to eat lunch with me. I've always tried to be a uniter.

Brock Osweiler

LeaderSchoolMeLunchSomeoneTry

Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are written that are kind of the fingerprints of the first person who played that role, and so I like to think of it as a road map.

Phillipa Soo

LoveRoadThinkPersonKnowKind

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

Tim Berners-Lee

FuturePeopleIdeasToolsRunOwn

One reason I rarely listen to radio is they don't play our music much.

Rick Nielsen

MusicPlayListenReasonRadioMuch

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

Marsilio Ficino

FriendMindFeetYouRunNeed

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