Wildfire Quotes - Page 1

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
Robert Orben / Writer
Humor
Wildfires
Years
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Due to climate change, wildfires are growing in size, frequency, and intensity, and wildfire seasons are becoming longer.
Mikie Sherrill /
Becoming
Climate
Climate Change
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Growing
Intensity
Seasons
Size
Change Climate Climate Change
Due
Longer
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When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
Whoopi Goldberg / Comedian
Kindness
Be Kind
Generosity
Helping Others
Remember
Trouble
Volunteer
Else
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No matter the natural disaster I've covered, whether it's a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.
Ginger Zee /
Covered
Disaster
Flood
Greater
Matter
Natural
Natural Disaster
Perspective
Come
Always
Much
Back
Whether
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In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.
Douglas Leone / Venture Capitalist
Application
Spread
Invest
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When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that the majority of my wildfire prevention legislation was signed into law today.
Paul Gosar /
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Majority
Prevention
Proud
Signed
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I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
Tom Watson / Golfer
Fighting
Fire
Moving
Structure
Woods
Come
Anywhere
Fight Your Know
Behind
Fight
Move
Right
Rather
Where
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Mr. Trump is actually going to accomplish something, and that's why Mr. Trump's campaign has caught on like wildfire across the country and we see these huge crowds that come out.
Corey Lewandowski /
Accomplish
Caught
Crowds
Trump
Mr
Campaign
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New words can spread like wildfire thanks to social media - you only have to look at 'mansplaining' and 'milkshake duck' to see language evolution at work - so why not old ones too?
Susie Dent / Lexicographer
Evolution
Spread
Thanks
Why Not
Duck
Old Ones
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But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
Avi Arad / Businessman
Box Office
Revolution
Shocked
Box
Blade
Subsequently
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It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Behave
Humans
Unpredictable
Fundamental
Likely
Presence
Ways
Wildfire
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We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.
Janet Napolitano / Former United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Arizona
Community
Delay
Funding
Projects
Risk
Delays
Begin
Communities
Federal
Federal Funding
Ground
Litigation
Processes
Review
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My father was a wildfire. Really. Nobody could save him from anything. His family turned away from him, and he broke up with his first wife. It just happened to be that when he was going to get back up on his feet, my mother was there.
John Carter Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Broke
Back Up
Family Wife Father
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Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.
David Quammen / Writer
Respiratory
Spread
Big One
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Likely
Route
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Virus
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Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.
Rick Renzi / Former United States Representative
April
Arizona
Deployment
March
Pushing
Waiting
Shot
Fires
Forest
Neither
Northern
Prepare
Stepped
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Slack spread through businesses like wildfire, initially in the tech and media sectors, but now much more widely. At its public launch in February 2014, it had 17,000 users. As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7 million daily active users.
Walt Mossberg / Journalist
Active
April
February
Spread
Users
Businesses
Daily
Initially
Launch
Million
Tech
Sectors
Slack
Widely
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Deepfakes - seemingly authentic video or audio recordings that can spread like wildfire online - are likely to send American politics into a tailspin, and Washington isn't paying nearly enough attention to the very real danger that's right around the corner.
Ben Sasse /
American Politics
Attention
Audio
Danger
Online
Spread
Video
Nearly
Corner
Washington
Likely
Paying
Recordings
Seemingly
Send
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How do you hold on to the idea that you are good and kind and deserving of love when the whole world thinks you're evil? It's really disorienting to see this character with your face and your name and your details catch internet wildfire. It really bothered me.
Caroline Calloway /
Deserving
Love Good Character
Catch
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If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
Paul Farmer / Medical Anthropologist
Cholera
Country
Haiti
Health Care
Public Health
Rebuke
Retrospect
Should Have
Spread
Health Care Country
Canary
Prepare
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Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.
Bonnie Raitt / Singer-Songwriter
Morning
Afternoon
Changed
Convince
Distribution
Generations
Pay
Spread
Stars
Talent
Younger Generation
Younger
Star
Downside
Generation
Record
Laptop
Overnight
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Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.
George Packer / Journalist
Finance
Appointments
Campaign Finance
Climate Change
Creation
Immigration
Incapable
Job Creation
Judicial
Management
Safety
Security
Training
Addressing
Campaign
Executive
Matters
Joined
List
Mine
Pilot
Scores
Veterans
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