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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
I was never a joke teller. I don't even like jokes, for the most part. I don't like to hear them, and rarely can I even remember one.
I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.
I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.
I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.
You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.
I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.
It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.
Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people.
There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.
From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.
Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.
The biographies of the great rarely report much about the nanny, but for many, she will have played a crucial role in their formative years.
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.
I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.
Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
It rarely rains in Hollywood - and I love the rain. There are ups and downs to anywhere in the world, but I get frustrated without any rain.
Just like people date and break up, friends break up, too. 'Best friends forever' rarely ever happens; it's just that no one talks about it.
No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?
Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.
My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's actually rarely, rarely an action film, to be frank.
I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day.
Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He's so confident and extroverted, and I'm much more restrained and internal.
Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
Rarely was a distinction deserves as the Oscar for best supporting actor, who went to the late Heath Ledger. His 'Joker' is really incredible.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.
Anyone who has spoken to experienced combat troops knows that they rarely brag about their exploits. Strong and silent is the preferred style.
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
I do so much travelling in my work that my suitcase is always packed, with my passport ready. I rarely unpack, as I am constantly on the move.