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Disaster Quotes
Most Famous Disaster Quotes of All Time!
Modern civilization can feel fragile, balanced precariously against threats like terrorism, disease, and natural catastrophe on a global scale. When disaster strikes at massive scale, the earliest hours afterward often determine everything that follows, a theme in our Crisis quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'The Room' premiered in 2003 - which went exactly as it does in 'The Disaster Artist' - I didn't think it was going to go anywhere. It wasn't a film I wanted to share with people.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Disaster Artist' isn't really about 'The Room.' It's about friendship and how dreams can come true.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn't that a possible recipe for disaster for the future?
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school I was a disaster, but when I would design, I could feel a sense of pride. I've always designed, and I would literally design everything I'd see: cars, bikes, motorcycles - everything.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter the natural disaster I've covered, whether it's a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since they all broke up the greatest conference in football, which was the Southwest Conference, I've had little interest in them any more. I thought that was a disaster and a disgrace when they did that, but they did it anyway. So I've lost interest them and I don't care what they do anymore.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I take go-karts out with my friends, it's a disaster normally. But in the race car, I'm calm because they pay me to do this, and I have to be professional.
Local governments are sometimes singled out as the one part of a system truly equipped to respond when catastrophe hits close to home. Post-war eras have shown how quality can slip when there's no competition pushing improvement. Read more in our Disasters, Disastrous, and Emergency quotes.