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Wangari Maathai Quotes

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Wangari Maathai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: kenyan
Birth: April 1, 1940

Topics

Environment Powerful Poor Responsible

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Good Father Sports Golf New Up

Fidel Castro had to sit there while he was given a speech on democracy, something the Cuban people have not been able to hear for 43 years.

People Democracy Speech Years Sit

The slogans of globalisation are 'Get on your bike' and 'The world is flat.' People who want to get on have to be willing to move, often and unhesitatingly, at the behest of their employer or to seek work.

John Lanchester

Work Bike People World Want Seek

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

Think Back Atheist Atheism Set Few

Honestly, I feel like pressure is only applied when you feel pressure.

Michael Beasley

Pressure Feel You I Feel Like Only

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

Walk Try Reason Being No Reason

At Eventbrite, we value quality results over everything else. So while working late is acknowledged, at the end of the day, I care more about the results you're producing.

Quality Day Value End Of The Day End

If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack Nicholson and because he does a wonderful job, but because he is a threat. The bad guy is someone people will have in their minds forever if it's a good bad guy.

Good Job People Someone Remember

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

Work Reading Serious Try Deal

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Relationship Someone Need Real Only

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

Respect You Modeling Know Tell Less

I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

Three Kind Rock Understand Two Fan

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