Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.
. . . 99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. . . . . . . benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift
There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
Yon Kippur. Greatest Jewish holiday ever. The Jewish day of attonement. You don't ear for one day, all your sins for the year are wiped clean. Beat that with your little Lent. What is Lent? Forty days of absolution. Forty days to one day. Even in sin you're paying retail.