#stand

Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#end #end of the world #global #global warming #going

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women. ↗

— Bernard Manning

#bisexual #glad #i #men #rejected

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#brother and sister #dad #different #early #growing

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. ↗

— William James

#best #best way #normal #study #understanding

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on. ↗

— Richard McCabe

#changes #going #happens #how #light

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Pras Michel

#cause #confident #great #home #i

We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath. ↗

— Michael Irvin

#cool #did #each #had #i

My Dad was such an incredible person, and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. And I think that's what's so important - to be able to carry on where he left off. ↗

— Bindi Irwin

#carry #carrying #corner #curling #dad

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#ask #been #book #different #different world

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#being #book #booker #different #every