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Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed. ↗

— Al Gore

#dumping #effective #environment #failed #feel

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked. ↗

— Gilbert Gottfried

#even #find #i #kind #less

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#does #half #joys #know #underwear

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. ↗

— Norman Granz

#does #ellington #leader #movie #musician

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#behind #finally #get #here #his

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#been #before #english #english language #eruption

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#could #court #day #days #flames

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money. ↗

— Alex Grey

#boston #doing #going #had #i

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. ↗

— Thomas Guthrie

#gives #grace #luster #nature #rough

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#live #meaning #moment #play #speak