Nicholas Stern Quotes

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Nicholas Stern

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WaterWorldPressureBetterDiet

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Jeff Bezos

FocusPeopleYouImportantDifficult

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

John S. Tanner

WarPeopleFriendsTimingRhetoric

As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are also optional, at least in theory. Does it really seem like a good idea to make someone's salary so susceptible to customers' whims on a given day - or whether any customers happen to show up at all?

Stephen J. Dubner

GoodDaySomeoneSalaryEveryoneUp

Singing's not my real passion.

Skrillex

PassionSingingRealReal Passion

When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.

Rob Reiner

FriendshipAgeTimeMeGrowing Up

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

Rory McIlroy

GoodPeopleWinningGolfPlaySaid

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

Molly Ringwald

MistakesFreeEarlyMaking Mistakes

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

Johnny Iuzzini

WorkFamilyMoneyWork EthicEarly

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Brad Henry

DemocracyReadingEducatedInformed

I am so lucky to have the job that I have. I can never lose sight of the fact that people are counting on me to do my best.

Brina Palencia

BestJobI AmPeopleMeLose

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Anne Sullivan

TimeBeginningPurposeStartGrow

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

Pepa

GhettoDumbThreeLuckyGotJust

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