#spite

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#biodiversity #change #climate #climate change #dependence

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#brady #bunch #chicago #deaf #despite

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#been #continued #couple #despite #had

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. ↗

— Rollo May

#absence #ahead #capacity #despair #move

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt. ↗

— Rollo May

#between #commitment #doubt #healthiest #means

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#different #each #entities #fortress #image

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#am #babies #despite #drawbacks #having

The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#contacts #contagion #daily #disease #enough

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule. ↗

— Gary Ross

#because #catching #consideration #decided #despite

Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist? ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#countries #democratic #despite #economy #enormously