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“We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.”

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Author:Paula Scher

“Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.”

People Needs Stuff Environment Thrive Ritual

Author:Paula Scher

“Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.”

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Author:Andrew Breitbart

“With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.”

Responsibility Environment Shots Recognition

Author:Jerry Garcia

“What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things.”

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Author:John R. Allen

“To maintain our economic and national security, we must maximize all of our nation's energy resources, including renewable sources, alternative fuels, and fossil fuels, all in a way that balances economic development and protecting our environment.”

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Author:Joe Heck

“I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment.”

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Author:Maggie Hassan

“Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been especially aggressive in pursuing regulations that specifically target coal power plants. These regulations have already put hundreds of Pennsylvanians out of work and will continue to cause economic distress while yielding negligible benefits for our environment.”

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Author:Pat Toomey

“Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.”

Environment Taught College Destruction Rational

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy.”

“I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.”

People Environment Blessed Sincere

Author:Sharon Jones

“Everyday, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals, but helps the environment.”

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Author:Kat Von D

“You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.”

Environment Defined Our Environment

Author:T.I.

“I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.”

Together Fun Hell Environment Office Opposites Humorists

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.”

Hard Environment Movement Inspired

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.”

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Author:Mairead Corrigan

“The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.”

Environment Missing Students Listening Ensemble Missing Out

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.”

Feels Environment Excited

Author:PJ Harvey

“The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.”

“Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.”

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Author:Ted Nordhaus

“To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead.”

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Author:Karl Rove

“The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.”

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Author:Bette Midler

“Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.”

“The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.”

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Author:Carol Ross Barney

“Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.”

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Author:Richard Meier

“It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.”

Important Differences Environment Scales

Author:Richard Meier

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in America, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.”

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Author:Pam Grier

“I sometimes call this our "spacesuit self" because we come into an environment that is difficult and challenging, where we're told to be different. We're told to jump over hoops to be loved and appreciated, so we have to develop spacesuit strategies to get approval and create ways to avoid being judged.”

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Author:Tara Brach

“I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.”

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Author:Michael Bierut

“The environment is going to change very quickly.”

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Author:David Wilkerson

“I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.”

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Author:Rich Lowry

“There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward a peace treaty and the resolution of issues related to territorial problems. Now, what did he propose? He proposed promoting an environment of trust and cooperation. I believe it is even hard to imagine that it can be any different, that we can agree to sign the documents that we are talking about without trusting each other or without cooperation. That is simply impossible even to imagine.”

“We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.”

Grows Millions Environment Design Creating Faster Just Do It Creating Things

Author:Howard Rheingold

“Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There's an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.”

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Author:Michael Marmot

“The environment can actually affect gene expression.”

Environment Expression Genes

Author:Michael Marmot

“["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.”

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Author:Janusz Kaminski

“I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later.”

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Author:Frank Moore Cross

“Even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment is what I live for.”

Environment Shots Pristine

Author:Travis Rice

“Ultimately it's a snowboarding film [Fourth Phase], of course, so the main thing that we wanted to celebrate was how awesome snowboarding is! Secondly, we wanted to celebrate the environment that we all shape our lives around. So the film documents myself and other like-minded individuals attempting to follow the hydrological cycles that shape the worlds we've committed our lives to.”

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Author:Travis Rice

“I'm passionate about capturing amazing snowboarding action. I get so much out of the artistic endeavor of even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment, using specialist cameras to showcase how fun and dynamic snowboarding is. That's what I live for.”

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Author:Travis Rice

“You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.”

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Author:John Burroughs

“Over time you get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs My Own Environment Let Me Clean Pollution Ecosystems

Author:Byron Katie

“We begin to not be human, as we've known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we're confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.”

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Author:Byron Katie

“[Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of a free lifestyle, then she ended up marrying a man who wanted to kind of keep her in the house and control her environment a little bit more and so she committed suicide.”

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Author:Boti Bliss

“When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving - in school or at home - that is the time to apply the lens of multiple intelligences and see whether one can find ways to help the child thrive in different environments.”

Way Children Different Reason Helping Home School Environment Thrive No Reason Multiple End Times Lenses Spend Time Assessing Different Environments Multiple Intelligences

Author:Howard Gardner

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