“I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.”
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“American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.”
“This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.”
“I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.”
“We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop”
“The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights movement when I was a young boy in the South, the women's suffrage movement when my mother was a young woman in Tennessee, the abolition movement much farther back, and the anti-apartheid movement when I was in the House of Representatives. All of these movements have one thing in common: the opposition to progress was rooted in an outdated understanding of morality.”
“I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.”
“I'm still trying to figure out exactly what President Trump represents in American politics. But, if nothing else, he represents a way for tens of millions of people who were desperate for change to just turn the table over and say, we want to start over again. But it is a challenge for our democracy. It definitely is. But, again, the remedy has to be devoting enough attention to restoring the way we make collective decisions in this country.”
“The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.”
“I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.”
“Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.”
“Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.”
“When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.”
“Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.”
“people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.”
“Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God.”
“The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.”
“Enough of satire; in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave; Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.”
“We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.”
“On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?”