#nat

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#brought #compatible #fairly #god #home

The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#change #climate #climate change #deal #get

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#annually #dollars #energy #global #global warming

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#better #catastrophes #century #cnn #consequence

You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it. ↗

— Jeremy London

#fortunate #get #like #living #you

The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them. ↗

— Julie London

#asked #choice #enough #fortunate #had

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian. ↗

— Shelley Long

#even #i #i was raised #predestination #presbyterian

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#best #rain #raining #thing

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#generally #hole #leaves #mind #nature

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#american #degree #got #hard #hard work