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David R. Brower Quotes

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

David R. Brower

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1912 - November 5, 2000

Topics

Great Me Pressure Club Resignation

This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it.

Growing Beyond Economy Inflation Far

Red is uplifting.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

Trust Job Graduation Think Software

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

Robert J. Shiller

Future Live World Action You Know

When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.

Brain Think You Something Get Your

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

Work Environmental Plants Sexy Mean

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Value Temptation Measured Object

I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

Childhood Three London Lived Four

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Time Think Scary I Think Which

Comeback is a good word, man.

Good Man Comeback Word

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors to do it, or the dialogue.

Michel Hazanavicius

Job You Ask Director Dialogue Show

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash, and we just get along really well within one night, you know.

Work Time Night You White Know

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