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Energy Quotes
"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."
"I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament."
"If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him."
"We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy."
"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."
"Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you."
"The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems."
"I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it."
"If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up."
"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."
"Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion."
"We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs."
"Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel."
"I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest."
"I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever."
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
"There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels."
"The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources."
"For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house."
"I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that."
"When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen."
"We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country."
"I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive."
"More love, more power. Less love, less power. Great love, great power."
"You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign."
"The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry."
"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
"While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance."
"I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy."
"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."
"Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere."
"Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried."
"Lakhs of families in the country are deprived of energy connectivity. Fruits of development will not reach the common man until energy connectivity reaches every last household of the country. In the age of globalization, we have no option but to make a quantum leap in energy production and connectivity"
"On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy."
"An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job."
"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."
"But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil."
"If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me."
"I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill."
"As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American."
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