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Bjorn Lomborg Quotes

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

Bjorn Lomborg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: danish
Birth: January 6, 1965

Topics

Water Year Drinking Water Earth More

I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

Jim Goldberg

Person More Being Radical Interested

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Sophie Hannah

Seeds Start Impossible Weird Body

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Stevie Nicks

Birthday Music Day People Mom Song

I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.

Trent Reznor

Music Art Song Saying Impossible

I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

Rupert Penry-Jones

Looking Remember Year You Acting

Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy.

Lucy Hale

Yourself Surround Yourself People You

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Dennis Brown

Alone Man Island Stands

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Debra Winger

Mirror Day Hair Every Day Half Film

True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.

Brian Celio

Friends Admit True Will True Friends

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Bono

Nature Music Heart People Ego View

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

Wole Soyinka

Confidence Action Think Feeling Go

It's amazing having so many people care so much about what I'm doing.

Shawn Mendes

People Amazing Care Doing Much Many