Energy Quotes

"Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great"

Ikue Mori, Musician

"Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit"

Howard Mumford Jones, Writer

"I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep"

Neil Patrick Harris, Actor

"Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases"

Burton Richter, Scientist

"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate"

Russ Feingold, Politician

"My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy"

Peter Coyote, Actor

"Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment"

Maximilian Schell, Actor

"In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis"

Lois Capps, Politician

"We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it"

Kip Winger, Musician

"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making"

Karl Urban, Actor

"There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors"

Karl Urban, Actor

"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life"

John Eaton, Politician

"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"

James Baker, Politician

"Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal"

Lamar S. Smith, Politician

"I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy"

Glenn Close, Actress

"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy"

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet

"Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders"

Sloan Wilson, Novelist

"You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing"

Ann Wilson, Musician

"When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal"

Yvonne Craig, Actress

"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future"

Van Jones, Activist

"We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up"

Stone Gossard, Musician

"I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important"

John F. Kerry, Politician

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness"

Shakti Gawain, Author

"There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that"

Rose McGowan, Actress

"It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy"

Roger Andrew Taylor, Musician

"We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love"

Heather Wilson, Politician

"It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates"

Maria Cantwell, Politician

"Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy"

Montgomery Clift, Actor

"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation"

Walt Kelly, Cartoonist

"I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy"

Liam Gallagher, Musician

"By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona"

Marc Anthony, Musician

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