Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Every single negative can lead to a positive. Any negative situation... don't get too down about it - you'll work it out.… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and… — Peter Ferrara Copy Share Image
Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Let me put it in a rather larger picture framework. Let's go to the longest time frame, the time frame of the… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But somebody said there was billions bet on this. You'd think they'd be lined up three deep the whole way. And that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars ... If I had 90 billion dollars, I wouldn't have it for long because I would… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded -… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There's a very big difference between negotiating to borrow billions of dollars on behalf of MCA and negotiating to borrow 28 cents… — Sidney Sheinberg Copy Share Image
Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase -… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing… — David Adam Copy Share Image
Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
