"While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro)."

-- John B. Quigley

#Moving Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Mean Quotes

“All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.”

Source : The Guardian Interview, February 1970.
“Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.”
“Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself,”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Thereâ€™s a writer for you,â€ he said. â€œKnows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.â€ [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writersâ€”because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answerâ€”still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers arenâ€™t people exactly. Or, if theyâ€™re any good, theyâ€™re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. Itâ€™s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward tryingâ€”only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”
“My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.”
“I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.”

Source : Louis Bayard (2009). “The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins
“In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.”
“The process of doing plays will make you an actor.”

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