Oil Quotes - Page 28

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.

  Rob Hopkins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Leaving

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• People turned around and came back to watch. An enormous crowd formed. Ampol Oil took films. When we left Australia, we also left our boards for the Aussies. Those films were shown all over the country to different clubs. The films and our boards became the basis for the modern surfboard movement in Australia.

  Greg Noll

  Country, Australia, People

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

  Marty Meehan

  House, Favors, Firsts

  "Hardball" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 25, 2006.

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• What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

  Marty Meehan

  Years, America, Interesting

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• It's like pouring oil from one glass to another down a line - in the end, you don't have any oil left; it is all stuck to the inside of the glasses. This way, 1,000 dollars become 100 dollars by the time it reaches the people. Whereas if we get 10 dollars, we add our effort to it and the money multiplies.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Glasses, People, Effort

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• We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Car, Meat, Cost

  "Diet for a Small Planet". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 1971.

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• In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and easily available source of energy. We did, or at least some of us did, what anybody does who discovers a treasure in the basement - live it up, and we have been spending this treasure with great enjoyment

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Race, Energy, Doe

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• Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

  Jeff Goodell

  Energy, Nasty, Sand

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• I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Mother, Running, Dream

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• I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

  Boris Vallejo

  Color, Quality, Dry

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• Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.

  Mark E. Hyman

  Vegetables, Typical, Soy

  "Acne: Are Milk and Sugar the Causes?" by Mark E. Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

  Simon Kuper

  Football, Oil Business, Stupidity

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• I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Too Much, Proposal, Break

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• I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

  Alexa Chung

  Obsessed, Decided

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

  Ralph Nader

  Answers, Paper, Ecology

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• Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works

  Charles Hendry

  Our World, Light, Giving

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• I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

  Smedley Butler

  Brother, Wall, Boys

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or something would happen, ... In the early years, it just took a long time for me to win a race. I got in somebody's oil one time and got in the wall, had a clutch go out once. . . so when I finally won one, it was a long time coming.

  Dick Trickle

  Wall, Winning, Race

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• I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Forever, Energy, Lasts

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• The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Top Down, Energy, Society Today

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• Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.

  Jeroen van der Veer

  Shells, Demand, Easy

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• I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

  Tristan Jones

  Running, Waiting, Sailing

  Tristan Jones (1998). “Ice!”, p.35, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Stupid, Sunshine, Olives

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• When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

  Charlie Crist

  Issues, President, Helpful

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