"America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford."

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Source : "Former Colorado Governor Declares For President". www.cnn.com.

Richard Lamm

#America Quotes #Want Quotes

“A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.”
“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?”

Source : C.P. SNOW (1963). “THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK”
“Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.”
“Little red wagon, little red bike, I ainâ€™t no monkey but I know what I like.”
“After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.”
“A close-up on screen can say all a song can.”
“You can't be an environmentalist, you can't be an ocean steward without truly walking the walk and you can't walk the walk in the world of the future, the world ahead of us, the world of our children, not eating a plant-based diet.”
“Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.”

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