Donella Meadows Quotes

Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning.

Donella Meadows

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GrowthSmartRisksControlDumbOwn

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

Jermaine Fowler

LovingActorNextYearsUpBecause

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

John O. Brennan

WarHellInnocentSometimesWhyYes

I'm not Mr. Hollywood. I'm a book writer.

Michael Connelly

BookHollywoodWriterMr

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

Stephen Hawking

WorldYouLabEveryRegulate

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

Lou Reed

RulesListenNeverOldYourStuff

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Joseph Wood Krutch

BirdWithoutMissUsWellGet

When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor.

Janina Gavankar

DownKindActorNerdy

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

ThinkNiceNowTwoRememberingMove

I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw.

Christopher Plummer

DogMotherParentsRememberUpSaw

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

Chris O'Dowd

WomenMeThinkWantMoreSpoon

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.

Allegra Versace

HomeSchoolDressMeMomPainting

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

Alice McDermott

CharacterDoubtRiskFictionWriter

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