Planets Quotes - Page 32

• Electricity comes from other planets.

  Lou Reed

  Electricity

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.84, Da Capo Press

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• The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

  Dick Gregory

  United States, Nations, States

  "John Legend and Joe Morton Team Up for Play on Life of Dick Gregory" by Sergio, www.indiewire.com. March 23, 2016.

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• Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Wind, Shadow

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• Tel Aviv, with its young Olim community, is the sexiest thing on the entire planet.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Community, Young, Sexiest

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• Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'

  Tommy Franks

  Military, Circles, Guy

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• Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

  Julia Hill

  Mean, Our World, Community

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• I have to say, as much I am respectful of people's faith and the idea of it being necessary for them, but when it comes to the Catholic church as an organization I don't have one scintilla of compassion, understanding, anything. I just think they're the most heinous, corrupt, separatingly vile organization that's ever been on the planet.

  Dylan Moran

  Thinking, Compassion, Organization

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• Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up.

  Daphne Merkin

  Cheer, Suffering, Shadow

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• I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face. It is still in its infancy, still drfiting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate which leaves the old gene panting far behind.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Soup, Faces

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Water, Skins, Nerves

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I don't like the idea of teaching religion in schools, and creation is not my thing, but that's a trivial point compared to saving the creation. I'd much rather have half of the people in the country be creationists and work really hard to save the creation than have everybody be evolutionists and be destroying the planet.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Country, Teaching, School

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Baseball, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

  David Crosby

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This way of life is both what is most damaging to us as a culture, and, paradoxically, contributes to its richness. It may in the end be our lasting contribution to the life of our planet.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Loneliness, Degrees, Culture

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Go Green, Live Rich is the ultimate toolkit for greening the planet and our wallets at the same time. No one does a better job than David Bach in showing us the practical strategies for how to enjoy living sustainably.

  Terry Tamminen

  Jobs, Doe, Green

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• Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

  Alan Bock

  Cutting, Hemp, Half

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• Could it be that the planets are castaway heads.

  Visar Zhiti

  Castaway

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• The planets show what is happening, the signs how it is happening, and the houses where it is happening.

  Howard Sasportas

  House, Shows, Happenings

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• I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

  Michael Light

  Sublime, Idyllic, Noble

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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• We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

  Dimitar Sasselov

  Rocks, Water, Needs

  "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

  Dimitar Sasselov

  Discovery, Looks, Exploration

  "Starmen: Wolfgang Tillmans meets Dimitar Sasselov". Interview with Chris Hatherill, www.dazeddigital.com. August 20, 2010.

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• I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this stuff and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.

  Aviv Nevo

  Men, Stuff, Sometimes

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• When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

  Damian Loeb

  Unique, Opinion, Lost

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• God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Player, Snooker

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