Nina Easton Quotes

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.

Nina Easton

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StopEngineersWillLandOverwhelmed

I collect a lot of art.

Robert Rodriguez

ArtLotCollect

I lived deep in the country in northern Wisconsin. I didn't have any neighbors or anything, so in the summers, I played guitar for hours and hours every day until I was about 18. I never thought about combining it with drag, 'cause to me, well, drag queens don't play guitar. Now I'm like, 'You idiot, that's an opportunity.'

Trixie Mattel

OpportunityDayMeDeepThoughtYou

I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.

Michael Keaton

WorkFatherMotherTimeChildCare

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

Donald Rumsfeld

ControlExerciseCountryOverTask

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

Dean Ornish

WisdomTruthScienceTomorrowMay

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

Brian Eno

MusicResearchSomeoneYouDone

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

Anton Yelchin

TrustPeopleKnowPrettyOnlyWho

When you have multiple patients on life support, you don't pull the plug on one just to save another.

Suzan DelBene

LifeSupportYouJustPullSave

I was once caught climbing out of the classroom window while bunking a class. I lied that I had to go to the bathroom and the exit was crowded. The principal believed me.

Swara Bhaskar

MeWindowGoPrincipalClassExit

If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them hostage.

Portia Simpson-Miller

PeopleWinYouMindsEmpowerHold

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

Sherwood Boehlert

StepFirst StepOilFirstOpening

I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s .

Seth

TimeDeepThinkBehaviorYouEarly

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