Frances Beinecke Quotes

Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

Frances Beinecke

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EffortSafetyEarthNobodyWayBuy

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

Ann Curry

PowerPeopleMeSocietyVoiceThink

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

Jeff Gannon

WorkBelieveNowWillI BelieveHim

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

Michael C. Hall

YourselfInterestingYouActingPlay

I'm not a math-head.

Michael Stuhlbarg

GratefulOpportunitiesWayComeJust

When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.

Monica Bellucci

MeGoBoringCannes

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Louis Agassiz

NatureMindYouNeverStudyHighest

Most of my memories are of softball games in Falls Church with my sister, yard sales across town on the weekends with my grandma, grocery-shopping and errand-running with my mom, learning to drive an old Volkswagen bug down Old Keene Mill Road with my dad.

Christina Tosi

LearningMemoriesMomSisterRoad

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

Tim Meadows

LifeEducationGoodMeMy LifeYou

I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.

Morgan Neville

SuccessKindNeverGotDocumentary

If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

Martha Beck

YouFeelingAcceptPayDecideMight

When you're arguing with a fool, you're the fool for even going back and forth.

Justine Skye

FoolYouBackArguingGoingEven

It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into a false sense of security and then assault them with a couple really loud, really strange stories.

Kevin Barry

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