Paul Hawken Quotes

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.

Paul Hawken

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MoneyGivingInformationEverything

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

Amy Smart

FoolPeopleLookScaredComplete

We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

CountryProductivityJustOur

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.

Srikumar Rao

ChildWiseThinkParentUniverse

It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'

Rob Sheffield

PeopleAmericanEnoughLookBurn

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

Robert B. Laughlin

EducationMotherTogetherSchoolFar

I have been pleased to receive petitions from groups that seek a range of new gun control measures and groups and individuals who believe additional laws are unnecessary or unwise.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

ControlBelieveGunGun ControlNew

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Rose Macaulay

BetterTalkingYouDelusionThings

I don't feel like I'm a hero.

Ron Stallworth

HeroFeelLike

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Ruth Reichl

LifeHappinessJoyFindingSecret

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.

Josh Homme

VacationThinkYouHawaiiBack

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

Jonathan Nolan

PeopleRelationshipsGamesBigFan

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

Jordyn Wieber

PositiveWordsMeLittle GirlsLook

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