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The entrenched interests want to protect the status quo, and the apologists for those interests want to say they can't have effective energy and clean air at the same time,


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CHRIS HART After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community co...
CHRIS ROCK We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to...
CHRIS HARDWICK I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra...
CHRIS MARTIN Funny enough, the person who is most bummed out to hear I won't be back is Mark Cuban. Despite w...
CHRIS SACCA I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don'...
CHRIS PINE You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find my...
CHRIS LEDOUX Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tel...
CHRIS PINE China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting ...
CHRIS SMITH So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It'...
CHRIS CARTER I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right...
CHRIS ELLIOTT My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think m...
CHRIS KATTAN 2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bun...
CHRIS SACCA I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up t...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionate...
CHRIS HADFIELD Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ...
CHRIS MARTIN A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many ...
CHRIS PAVONE I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's ...
CHRIS RIDDELL Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, ...
CHRIS KILHAM 2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually u...
CHRIS LARSEN It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And th...
CHRIS EVANS Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because eve...
CHRIS MONEYMAKER We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON