Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
Frans Lanting
Recitation: by Male by Female
There's no debate about the greenhouse effect, just like there's no debate about gravity. If someone throws a piano off the roof, I don't care what Sarah Palin tells you, get out of the way because it's coming down on your head.
Jimmy Kimmel
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Joe E. Lewis
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Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.
Jenny Slate
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Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
John Frankenheimer
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'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.
Andrew Sean Greer
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Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.
Meg Tilly
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When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.
John Kasich
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We got really close, but it was just too complicated and secretive to shoot at the Met Ball. That would have been the brass ring of 'Gossip Girl' episodes.
Stephanie Savage
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When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.
Srikumar Rao
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But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
Tony Blair
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I haven't worn jewelry since one of the front teeth I had made into an earring became no longer necessary because I lost the ear.
Mick Foley
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Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
Jonathan Coe
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