Alex Quotes

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

I like musicals that look more like plays.

Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.

People like to play with the tuna, sometimes.

The show [ Too Much Tuna] changed a lot, actually, which is risky when you get positive critical feedback.

To add to truth distracts from it.

We can beat anyone on our day - so long as we score.

I Wanted To Sign Scholes For Killie But Fergie Burst Out Laughing

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills.

I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush.

The influence is really all over the place. Detroit, definitely because of Motown and Stooges. When you come from a place like Detroit, you're really proud of what you have there.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

I don't think BitCoin has ever been anything but a legitimate enterprise. Currency is currency, it's used for good and ill.

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

I actually did use to sell shoes.

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

the past is a liarfull of promises it can't keepbut like a foolish first loveyou keep going back to it

I love you, I thought. But I didn’t say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one— that she won’t say it back.

Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.