#me

The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#changed #fact #i #know #life

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years. ↗

— Mark Strong

#bit #children #feel #had #having

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself. ↗

— Mark Strong

#assistant #because #else #farm #generally

Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.' ↗

— Mark Strong

#because #children #ever #get #had

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly. ↗

— Mark Strong

#accordingly #around #baby #bad #behavior

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#believe #condition #conference #environment #global

You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do. ↗

— Mark Strong

#avoided #because #case #days #down

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#babies #canada #child #even #got

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#called #ecological #habits #i #inertia

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#damaging #environmental #geared #less #lifestyles