Quotes About Adaptation

As the label has developed over the years, more and more structure and tailored pieces have been added, and so, whilst the core values of the brand have remained, I feel it's important to try new things and add more layers and dimensions to a collection every season.

Whilst the developed world may say it wants to see much greater commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, this may only be politically feasible if there is strong support for adaptation measures in those countries at greatest immediate risk.

The hardest thing in life is reinventing yourself and staying at the top of your game, whilst the hardest thing in football is finding that club you want to stay at.

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

If I have time to dash home before an event, I love to swap workwear for something a bit more whimsical.

I don't like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you're in a situation you're not in control of, just change.

There's no point about whining or complaining or screaming.

When I was a little kid we got whipped. It was nothing new to me, I was used to it.

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.

'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

Bound for Glory' week was such a whirlwind. With it being filmed in Canada, it was really exciting for me. Although it was on the East Coast and I'm from the West Coast, still felt like I was kind of in my hometown, I don't know.

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.

When the fans whistle, it's clear that you have to change something and the fans have every right to do it.

In Germany, you can play aggressively, but the referee will always blow his whistle, but in England, that's not the case. That's better for me.

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final. I enjoy it more in England because you have to think quicker. The pace of the game is faster, so you don't have much time to think.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

I wouldn't mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian, or anything else, that he stay that way. But we originally made him white. I don't see any reason to change that.

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.

The mistake British comedians often make is trying to beat the Americans at their own game - getting visiting American singers on their shows, talking about 'sidewalk' instead of 'pavement,' sitting on high stools in a white dinner jacket doing ballads. That way, you simply end up with a mid-Atlantic mishmash.

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.