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  • Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits. -- David Lynch
  • I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels. -- Sheri L. Dew
  • It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar -- Melvin Burgess
  • Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races. -- Toni Morrison
  • [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. -- George Berkeley
  • Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment. -- Margaret MacMillan
  • Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar. -- Bill Geist
  • Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. -- Jeff Goodell
  • The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart. -- Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord's side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer. -- Sheri L. Dew
  • What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile. -- James Hansen
  • I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya? -- Chris Isaak
  • Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
  • If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom. -- Mika
  • My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast. -- Theaster Gates
  • Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it. -- Bert Campaneris
  • You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads. -- James Hansen
  • Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics. -- Bono
  • The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them. -- Donella Meadows
  • I suggest we take our heads out of the tar sands and look up to see the sun. We don't own it, but it provides us all with great, endless value. So, too, the wind. These free, renewable sources of 'energy currency' are perfect partners to what we own together. -- William McDonough
  • If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour? -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush. -- Barry Hannah
  • There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. -- T. Boone Pickens
  • My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad and four brothers, and we would all beat the tar out of each other while the show was on, and it was all okay because my dad was a wrestling fan. -- John Cena
  • When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress. -- John Ridley
  • We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands. -- Josh Fox
  • I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city, in an area called the Miracle Mile, for crying out loud, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these amazing fossils: mammoth and saber tooth cat and dire wolf. -- Greg van Eekhout
  • I don't oppose pipelines - I like infrastructure - but I heard that the Keystone XL pipeline was going to carry tar sands oil from the lands of the Cree and Dene all the way to the Gulf of Mexico across the Ogallala aquifer, one of the largest aquifer systems in the world. It's bad for the climate, bad for the people, and it's all about profits. -- Winona LaDuke
  • Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar. -- Bill Geist
  • I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar. -- Steve Martin
  • Come out, come out, wherever you are... come out, come out, or you'll end up in the tar... -- Beatrice Rose Roberts
  • The crushed carcasses of slugs and frogs mixing with the Cretaceous carbons of tar give the road an organic glaze. -- Robert Michael Pyle
  • The crushed carcasses of slugs and frogs mixing with the Cretaceous carbons of tar give the road an organic glaze." -- Robert Michael Pyle
  • You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs. -- David Letterman
  • The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami. -- David Letterman
  • It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea. -- Daniel Handler
  • The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. -- Eric Hoffer
  • The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today. -- Rudolf Diesel
  • Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society. -- Jean Baudrillard
  • We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit. -- Sol Saks
  • All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive. -- C.E. Murphy
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