Bjorn Lomborg Quotes

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

Bjorn Lomborg

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LifeFuturePastWorldThinking

If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

John C. Maxwell

ReachYouWantRunWayTop

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

Ander Crenshaw

FocusImportantNeedMustIRSMost

They always said to me that I needed to be more feminine. I think it's so wrong. Being boisterous doesn't mean you are not feminine.

Maxine Peake

MeThinkYouWrongSaidMean

People are tough. We're evolved for less food; more exercise; less sleep; less security; more paranoia. The irony is that we're so good at what we do. We strive for more food; less exercise; more sleep; more security; less paranoia - and we've succeeded.

Jeff Carlson

GoodFoodSleepPeopleToughStrive

People can misconstrue closeness for love.

Stevie Wonder

LovePeopleCloseness

You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen.

Rudolf Steiner

YouNewMoodWillAlwaysOpen

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Liza Minnelli

FatherMotherDreamsMeDriveGave

It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can.

Jordin Sparks

GoodTimePeopleGood ThingsYou

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

Diane von Furstenberg

NatureAnimalLeafYouBoldAnimals

I've eaten a lot of strange things. I've eaten something called a razor clam. They just call it that because it likes like the old-school razors in the old-school barber shops. I can't even think of some of the things I've tried.

Chris Bosh

ThinkStrangeBarberCallSomething

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

Bret Stephens

AmericanTraditionDisagreementRests

When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.

Brian Azzarello

BrokenCityWritingChicagoNames

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