"One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods."

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Source : "This Much I Know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

Fay Weldon

#Believe Quotes #Recycling Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.”
“...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.”
“The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.”
“Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.”
“I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.”
“In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.”
“Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.”
“Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.”

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