Resources Quotes - Page 6

• All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.

  Evo Morales

  People, Towns, Bolivia

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• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Children, Boys, Parent

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• Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Attitude, Real, Sacrifice

  "Apocalypse, and How: Viggo Mortensen’s Road Winds On". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. November 25, 2009.

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• It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

  Elon Musk

  Running, Ideas, Waiting

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

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• By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Believe, Years, Touching

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• If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Land, Water

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist". The Huffington Post Article, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eggs, Meat, Devastation

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

  Bob Ney

  Believe, Views, Law

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• Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Renewable Resources, Hubris

  Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 23, 2009.

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• I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

  Michelle Obama

  Speak, Wealth, Prosperity

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• We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

  Sarah Palin

  Energy, Needs, Source

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

  Arnold Palmer

  Motivational, Sports, Discovery

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Apr 09, 2017

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• We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

  Pat Paulsen

  Beautiful, Land, Effort

  "Paulsen's Running - But Where Is He?" by David Holmstrom, www.csmonitor.com. February 05, 1992.

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• It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

  Henry Paulson

  Government, Stronger, Use

  "King Henry Might Finally Use His Powers For Good" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. October 9, 2008.

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• When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Strength, Power, Focus And Concentration

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• It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

  Mike Pence

  People, States, Department

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

  Simon Sinek

  Winning, Organization, Ideas

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• I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Documentaries, Filmmaker, Has Beens

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• I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Done, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Struggle, School, Poor Neighborhoods

  Interview with Anderson Cooper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. March 7th, 2013.

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• Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

  Alex Steffen

  Cities, Decision, Energy

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

  James Surowiecki

  Numbers, Tasks, Needs

  "Calculating Campaigns". www.newyorker.com. September 24, 2012.

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• If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, People, Decision

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• If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

  David Suzuki

  People, Friendly, Bags

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