"A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like."

-- Nicholas Stern

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“The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.”
“Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.”
“You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.”
“Usually I'm trying to get away from my discography. I don't think I could tear down everything I've done, the structures I've created - you know, like what Miles Davis did eight times in a row, which was destroy every kind of crutch or system he had for making music. That's very, very difficult. When I reflect on my catalog, I'm very proud of it, and I love it, but what I want to do now is completely different. When I don't do something different, I feel like I'm cheating - consciously or unconsciously stealing from myself.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I like to think of myself as the Chris Benoit of the movie industry, capable of taking any picture and carrying it to box-office success. Take Garden State, without me that would have just been two hours of Portman doging.”
“Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.”

Source : Margaret Laurence, George Woodcock (1983). “A Place to stand on: essays by and about Margaret Laurence”
“I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.”
“If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.”

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