Alex Steffen Quotes

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

Alex Steffen

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Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.

Robert Reich

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Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

John Vane

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That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

Snoop Dogg

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I wish you could make money and people never saw what you did. Then you could relax and not care about how bad you are.

Travis Fimmel

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I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.

Rose McIver

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We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

RuPaul

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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Every Crohn's and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That's the craziest thing about it.

Mike McCready

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I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

Lisa Marie Presley

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Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

Chuck Palahniuk

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This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

Winnie Holzman

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I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'

Pranav Mistry

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