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“Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things.”
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“I think I must have a super-fast metabolism.”
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“Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
Source : "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty, David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009. 
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“The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.”
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“If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.”
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“Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.”
Source : Peter Bayne (1858). “Essays in Biography and Criticism”, p.20
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“I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I was known for my four years at Yale as David Kramer.”
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“I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
