Ben Dolnick Quotes

When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.

Ben Dolnick

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The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

Matthew Desmond

FamilyCountryPoorHousingStagnant

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

Stephen Kinzer

PowerChaosArmyAmericaLate

When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don't see the great catch or the long run. What I'm looking at is how the other team defended it.

Tom Landry

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I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

Tom Sizemore

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On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and on the outside of the door is a summary of the life events of the household.

Robert Fulghum

LifeFoodDoorUniverseOutside

I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.

Rory Stewart

GoodWhyAfghanistanExplaining

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

Juan Pablo Galavis

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Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.

Joseph Monninger

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Confucius

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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Arne Jacobsen

LifeArchitectureBecomeEverything

Every player dreams of playing a Champions League semi-final, and we will give everything.

Antoine Griezmann

DreamsChampionsWillEverything

I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I'm quite into wildlife and love photography as well, so that's something I'd like to do.

Asa Butterfield

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