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    I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

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    I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

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    I've always been "other." I've always felt odd; I have always felt foreign in the environment I've been in. When you are young, that is a really uncomfortable thing to feel. As an older woman I really embrace it.

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    I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

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    I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.

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    I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

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    Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.

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    I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

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    I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

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    I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

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    I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

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    I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.

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    I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.

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    I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that if your environment changes all the time, then maybe your ideas will change all the time.

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    I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

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    I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

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    I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.

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    I would imagine that what you try to do is to - is to be as sensitive to the environment that surrounds you as possible. As you see, my work has become increasingly global. My presence in the world has become increasingly global.

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    Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

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    James DeMonaco is one of my favorite directors I’ve ever worked with. I think he shoots really well and all that, but the work environment he creates – he makes everyone feel respected, he makes everyone feel appreciated, and he’s a true collaborator.

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    Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

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    Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham].

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    I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

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    Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.

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    Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

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    Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

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    Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

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    Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

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    Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

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    Let us all improve our personal behavior and redouble our efforts to protect our loved ones and our environment from the onslaught of pornography.

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    Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

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    Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

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    Leave every environment you go into better than you found it.

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    Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

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    Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

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    Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

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    Lose yourself in nature and find peace

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    Love the earth as you would love yourself.

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    Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments will lead to disaster

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    Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'

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    Making ourselves the solution, rather than part of the problem is our greatest challenge.

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    Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

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    Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

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    Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.

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    Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

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    Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

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    Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

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    Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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    Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

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    Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.