Wangari Maathai Quotes

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

Wangari Maathai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WaterPainPeopleLoseChoiceKnow

Motherhood made me a better person.

Jessie James Decker

MeMotherhoodBetter PersonBetter

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.

Robert Nozick

PeopleBehaviorTraditionPlace

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

Amy Chua

ChildBelieveParentYouKnowGet

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

Stanley Schmidt

FunIdeasUniverseYouPlayWild

I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

Trey Songz

DanceAmazingMeFeelYouI Can

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

Minor White

PracticeAlwaysEverythingMentally

There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend.

Chris A. Bridges

FriendHealthNothingMoreClean

As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor to make sure the right people see it.

Brad Anderson

FaithPeopleYouWantRightSee

There's no question in my mind that there's a problem with the funding of our universities here in Quebec.

Pierre Moreau

MindProblemQuestionHereQuebec

Ninety-nine percent of the time, if you're straight with the press, they'll be straight with you.

Thomas P. O'Neill

TimeYouPressStraightPercent

Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.

Marissa Moss

WorkHard WorkWritingWayHard

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

PeopleChanceYouDifferent People

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