Vaclav Smil Quotes

Harvesting the biosphere is still the most fundamental human activity. Without that, everybody's dead, really. We could do quite well without microchips, or the business site of 'Atlantic Monthly,' the gated communities, Guccis, and high-growth GDP. But we cannot do without harvesting the crops and cutting down the wood.

Vaclav Smil

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We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

Jeff Lindsay

BloodEatMeatTasteBecauseHandy

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

Simon Cowell

AttentionYouMouthBigGoingGet

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

Tom Rath

LifeJobThinkBetterSomeoneYou

For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

Rory Stewart

DemocracyMediaCitizenActive

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

Martin Sheen

GreatGovernmentYouI CanPerson

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.

Jared Harris

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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

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I don't know a single person that's like, ''Avatar' is my favorite movie.' It never even comes up. I don't know anyone that will defend that movie.

Chris Cubas

PersonKnowWillNeverDefendUp

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

Colin Farrell

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The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

Suzanne Brockmann

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Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

Suzanne Vega

FightCrazyMeanFair

A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'

Peter O'Toole

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