Joel Salatin Quotes
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
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Practices were tough.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.
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When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.
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We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
