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Energy Quotes
Effort, and the direction it takes.
This set treats energy both literally and as a metaphor for drive, from a historical account of wartime industrial effort to one person's plain admission of having plenty of interest and desire to spare. Readers focused on infrastructure topics may prefer our Energy Policy quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather be by myself than be spending any time or energy on somebody that I didn't feel sure about.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to convince those around you that you're worth their time and energy, and that can be really taxing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the fastest ways to build the clean energy economy is to allow more people to benefit from it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.
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- Nov 07, 2020