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"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."
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"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."

"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."

"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."

"Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes."

"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."

"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."

"Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me."

"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."

"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."
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"I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving."

"Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock."

"I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment."

"The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected."

"I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control."

"We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered."

"Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?"
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