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“I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.”

Black Environment Grew Grew Up Southern Jeans Sweden Bohemian

Author:Johan Lindeberg

“Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.”

Should Ends Certain President Levels Environment Practicals The End Of The Day Cooperation Diplomacy Decency Decorum Bipartisanship

Author:Mark McKinnon

“I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.”

Thinking Environment Mass Humorous Murder Prison

Author:Natalie Merchant

“We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.”

Feels Humans War Hands Humanity Natural Loss Environment Resources Property Destroyed Destructive Natural Resources Uneasy Human Hands

Author:Nong ?uc Manh

“I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.”

Environment Handle

Author:Raine Maida

“Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.”

Way Writing Different Environment Particular Mediums Prose Poetry Is Catching Prose Poetry

Author:Story Musgrave

“To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.”

Guy Bits Situation Environment Nice Military Police Males Hard Things Nice Guy Crass Blowhards

Author:Dean Norris

“Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.”

Should Spiritual Term Common Christianity Environment Immortality Organized Heritage Spiritual Life Correspondence

Author:Albert J. Nock

“I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.”

Past Environment Involved Get Involved Tipping Tipping Point

Author:Chris Noth

“I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.”

Way Believe Humans Play Choices I Believe Social Human Beings Environment Majors Conditioning Upbringing Genetics

Author:Kathy Najimy

“This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.”

Long Dark Environment Possibility Winter Academic Bothered Edinburgh Advisable

Author:Paul Nurse

“Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.”

Important Helping Government Jobs America Numbers Environment Failing Succeed Creator Federal Government Small Business Job Creators

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.”

Made Important School Literature Interesting Class Environment Teacher High School Enjoyed Interaction English Literature

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.”

Thinking Use Fiction Environment Crime Exception Pace Crime Fiction Swedish

Author:Camilla Lackberg

“A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.”

People Knows World Feels Years Long Running Used Stars Environment One Thing This World Football College Comfortable Prepared Nuts Senior College Football Senior Year

Author:Donal Logue

“I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.”

Environment Progress Scientific Progress

Author:Ernest Lawrence

“I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.”

Believe Ideas Shows I Believe Creativity Environment Havens Ideals Creator I Believe In Developing Offering Nurturing Enabling Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Guy Laliberte

“We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.”

People Humanity Environment Pleasant Beneficial

Author:John C. Portman, Jr.

“Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.”

Way Shows Literature Individual Environment Our Lives Unconscious

Author:Manuel Puig

“I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.”

People Want Strong Felt Attitude Environment Grew Grew Up Rough Your Presence

Author:Mekhi Phifer

“We are losing our environment so rapidly.”

Environment Losing Our Environment

Author:Stefanie Powers

“We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.”

Thinking Environment

Author:Stefanie Powers

“No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure.”

Doe Matter Care Winning Stuff Perfect Situation Environment No Matter What Take Care

Author:Mike Quade

“I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.”

World Bigs Environment This World Brother Masters Grew Grew Up Piano My Brother Classical Music

Author:Suzi Quatro

“I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.”

Beautiful Walks Environment Walking Parks Accustomed Canyons Avalanches Beautiful Day Walks In The Park

Author:Aron Ralston

“Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.”

Energy Issues Environment Source Involved Directors International My Time Sustainability Devoted Laboratory Fractions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Energy Sources New Energy

Author:Burton Richter

“I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.”

Trying Children I Can Dream Environment Balance Creating Pursue My Children Stable

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.”

Ifs Knows World Jobs Environment Taxes Complexes Creator Job Creators

Author:Marco Rubio

“In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.”

People Roles Gone Environment Tvs Comfortable Brands Zone Guests Brand New Gliding New Environment

Author:Stephen Root

“If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.”

Ifs Problem Asks Views Environment Rights Gay Ask Me Womens Rights My Best Friend Gay Rights

Author:Bernie Sanders

“These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.”

People Should Believe Play Government Care Roles Cases Environment Health Care Providing Federal Government

Author:Bernie Sanders

“There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.”

Littles Helping Problem Action Together Lying Three Bits Can Do Environment Movement Little Bit Environmental Collectives Together We Can Collective Action

Author:Clay Shirky

“We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.”

School Community Environment Teacher Involvement Good Teacher

Author:David Selby

“I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.”

Thinking Littles Matter Culture Reading Environment Listening

Author:David Sylvian

“I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.”

Want Mind Doe Environment Blood Controlled

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.”

Moments Names Water Change Environment Rivers Series Shore

Book:The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile.”

World Believe Earth Humanity Teach Environment Mystery Planets Buddhism Enlightenment Welcome Laughed Hostile Planet Earth Persecuted Scorned

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.”

Ideas Humanity House Attention Environment Too Much Our Lives Fields Buddhism Squares Our Environment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.”

Humanity Support Environment Buddhism Intelligent Cancer Destroying Host Intelligent Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.”

Real Humanity Issues Environment Buddhism Degradation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.”

Humanity Environment Cutting Planets Buddhism Species Destroyed Oblivion Indication Sloppiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.”

World Trying Whole Happiness Environment Crazy Buddhism Our Environment Crazy World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.”

Want Body Actors Environment Directors Input

Author:Kelly Lynch

“Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.”

Nature Environment Creation Right Now Relation Very Good Natural Environment

Author:Pope Francis

“I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.”

Way Feelings Parent Environment Danger Safe Safety Safe Environment

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.”

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Author:Fred Upton

“However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.”

Thinking Sound Term Environment Effects Sound Effects

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.”

Stories Environment Written Reader Supposed To Be Submerged

Author:Jack Vance

“The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.”

Long Order Natural Environment Balance Intervals

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.”

Together Social Justice Environment Social Justice Tied

Author:Dar Williams