Quotes
Authors
Carl Safina

"From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems."

Source : "Deepwater Horizon, One Year Later: A Conversation With Carl Safina". Interview with Douglas Gorney, www.theatlantic.com. April 20, 2011.

Carl Safina

#Oil Quotes #Risk Quotes #Technique Quotes

“It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.”
“Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that sheâ€™s â€˜damaged goodsâ€™, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom â€˜do you still love me?â€™ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.”
“What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter?”
“Itâ€™s important to have relationships with the people at the archives.”
“...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.”
“So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn There's vultures and thieves at your back The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies That you make up for all that you lack. It don't make no difference, escaping one last time It's easier to believe In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness That brings me to my knees.”
“It's wonderful to be in love. And it's definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it's OK if you don't find him and you're 24. You can find it someday.”
“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”

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