Alex Steffen Quotes

By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.

Alex Steffen

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I've always done comedy, and I've always wanted to do a dramatic role. I wanted to be a sheriff.

Jerry Van Dyke

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I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, 'I really want to play this guy!'

John C. McGinley

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Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Andrew Johnson

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I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.

Amy Grant

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Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

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I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the owner of a turntable.

Apparat

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Everybody talks smack during games.

Anthony Bennett

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You try to figure out the best way to throw the shot put, or the perfect way to long jump, and you don't ever get it. You just chip away, chip away, chip away as time goes on.

Ashton Eaton

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I want romance.

Shania Twain

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The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

Nikki Haley

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When I was a kid, I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really - something that was almost see-through, but it just moved in front of me.

Rhys Darby

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As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

Martin McGuinness

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