"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."

-- Chris Patten

#Growth Quotes #World Quotes #Green Quotes

“Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.”

Source : "Interview with David Strathairn of The Whistleblower". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. July 21, 2011.
“I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?”
“In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.”
“Canada doesn’t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.”
“You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.”
“Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer's catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn't cause these fires, but their policies have left the Forest Service under-funded and under-prepared for this crisis. I don't think it's a conspiracy, but it's a philosophy they have that leads to explosive fires that destroy everything.”
“Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.”
“I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Feb 04, 2014

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