Lydia Millet Quotes

About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.

Lydia Millet

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Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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You control what you do offensively, defensively. You're controlling who you play, how you want to play.

Steve Alford

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When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Rube Goldberg

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Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.

Michael Shermer

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No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.

Josh McDowell

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At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Denise Van Outen

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And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Christo

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The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The actors are not hams.

Christoph Waltz

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But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Anne Boyd

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I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

Artie Lange

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I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

William Sadler

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My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.

Penelope Cruz

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