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Lois Capps Quotes

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

Lois Capps

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 10, 1938

Topics

World Energy Security Country Way

Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Women Science Men Game Generation

I can play the air guitar really, really well.

Jessie J

Guitar I Can Play Air Well Really

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

John Liu

City Management Privilege Office Had

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

Jeannette Walls

Life Hero Childhood Parents People

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

Steve Buscemi

Work Find Actor More Always Then

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Luis Barragan

Space Think Serenity Magic Mystery

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

Lizzy Caplan

Day Believe Feel You Want Project

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

Joni Mitchell

Best Death Kiss World Think Bad

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

Douglas Coupland

Baby Will Point Being Against Whole

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

Dr. Seuss

Thought Christmas Come Store Maybe

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Claude Bernard

Nothing Proof Only Idea Valuable

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

Anne Carson

People Writing Believe Teach Idea