"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."

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Source : "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

Barry Commoner

#Art Quotes #Law Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.”
“The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.”

Source : "Gorbachevism". Book by Gorbachevism, 5th article, 1988.
“The Jawbreaker writer-director Darren Stein was a huge fan of Carrie and Halloween. He was like a kid. He was 26, so he was such a fan. He wanted William Katt and I, from Carrie, to be in the movie as the parents. We had a little bit more that ended up on the cutting-room floor, but that was kind of fun. Everybody that worked on that movie was really cool, including the girls, especially the new girl, the blonde, Judy Greer.”
“Hatred is self-punishment.”
“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”
“You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.”
“Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.”
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.”

Source : Mark Mathabane (1986). “Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa”, Macmillan Pub Co

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