#ironmen

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set. ↗

— Christian Bale

#best #beyond #doing #environment #exactly

Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world. ↗

— Karl-Erik Sveiby

#environment #non-fiction #historical-fiction

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#audible #background #codes #communications #environment

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#environment #fight #government #horrifying #our

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. ↗

— Aeschylus

#clear #drinking #drinking water #find #good

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#did #environment #esteem #getting #grew

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. ↗

— David Attenborough

#car #conscience #could #driving #environmentalist

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. ↗

— David Attenborough

#between #both #dependency #environment #lives

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. ↗

— David Attenborough

#decisions #electorate #environment #get #history

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#conflict #economy #environment #grow #protect