Zac Goldsmith Quotes

We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

Zac Goldsmith

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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

Angela Duckworth

CharacterIntelligenceEmpathyThink

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Angelina Jolie

WomenPeopleMeToughStrongPlay

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Michael Bloomberg

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It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

Troy Polamalu

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I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Michael Moriarty

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I do believe that a law-abiding citizen that is armed, that's out in public, will keep himself, his staff, and, in some cases, the public safe.

Chris Collins

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I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

Sheryl Sandberg

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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Twyla Tharp

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I'm low key at times and really learning as a political figure to give more - show more of myself and be less buttoned down, which I was when I was a lawyer and I was when I was a federal regulator.

Richard Cordray

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The year has 365 days, and I want each and every one of them to be exciting.

Mario Testino

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