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The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.
We've created coalitions with existing water groups and have helped to give them a voice in Washington; I'm proud that we're very good at that.
I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
Your worst enemy can have a nuclear hiccup that can devastate the world. We are truly all in this together, which is a spiritual thought. It isn't us against them. It has nothing to do with politics or philosophy or religion, it is these laws of nature, these laws of life, of which we are a part.
The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
We used to never study or memorize lines. We'd get a half a page out, throw a spit ball and look at our lines. Hence it was very chaotic on Cheers.
We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
I think we should wait until we're in our 70s I think. You know, falling apart. Then it would be kind of funny. Get us all back in a bar again.
About a third of the world's population depends upon fish for the animal protein in their diet. And the sheer mass of us-our toxic waste, us flushing stuff down the toilets and down the drains-just our impact along the coasts, are starting to poison the coastal waters.
I'm really proud of American Oceans Campaign because they do not just throw bricks-they work, when they can, with the people they disagree with. We have fought the oil companies for many years to keep them from drilling offshore.
Even though the oceans are vast and huge, it is the first three miles nearest the coasts that are the nurseries-that's where you create the life of the ocean, because that is where the oceans are most oxygenated.
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.
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