We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?'

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

I think I will die laughing.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.

Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate. It is about power and vulnerability. It is both dance and metaphor. And to its captives becomes a magnificent obsession

I have speakers all over my house because music is such a huge, huge part of who I am.

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

We all get weary sometimes and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

I'm not accustomed to taking a swing at a woman's head. That's not in my DNA.

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

His attention felt more like an irrepressible gravitational pull than mere interest.

Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar.

My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

'The Thirteenth Tale' is reminiscent of 'Wuthering Heights' because you're never sure if it's a ghost or if people have gone a bit mad; that feeling that's been channelled all the way from Bronte is a really exciting one.