"In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue."

-- Martin Rees

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“They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.”
“I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.”

Source : "Actor RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad". "Ouch" with Mat Frazer and Liz Carr, www.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2008.
“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
“I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.”
“The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK?”

Source : "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.
“There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.”
“In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.”
“You donâ€™t make money when you buy stocks. And you donâ€™t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.”

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