"We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy."

-- Wallace Stegner

#Effort Quotes #Earth Quotes #Might Quotes

“I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.”
“Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.”
“I dont spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.”

Source : "Tahar Rahim: 'Not everybody is this crazy'". Interview with Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.
“I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.”
“If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?”
“The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.”
“The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.”
“To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.”

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