Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
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I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
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I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young'un.
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I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
