Paula Dobriansky quotes

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.
-- Paula Dobriansky

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We don't want to be prejudging outcomes here," she said of US opposition to scientific guidelines for rich nations to cut emissions by 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. "We dont want to be predetermining what will come out of this process.
-- Paula Dobriansky

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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

A divided heart loses both worlds.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.