Alan Weisman Quotes, Years Quotes, People Quotes

For years, I have been looking for a way to look at the whole global environmental situation, which I have the privilege and burden of covering. And I wanted to give people a way to do something about it.

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I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me. A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose. I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.

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I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Years Quotes , Waiting Quotes

And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.

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You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

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Tags : Adolph Green Quotes , Years Quotes , Lasts Quotes

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

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In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

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I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

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The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Years Quotes , Land Quotes

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

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Tags : Aaron Taylor-Johnson Quotes , Boys Quotes , Years Quotes

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Years Quotes , Unity Quotes

My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Grandmother Quotes , Years Quotes

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

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Tags : Adolf Loos Quotes , Lying Quotes , Years Quotes

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

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