Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.
It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.
Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.
Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.
