Wendell Berry Quotes

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Make
  • Looking
  • Go

• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Power
  • Shopping

• I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Star
  • System
  • Astronomy

• The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Difference

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Chance
  • Comics
  • Forgotten Realms

• A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Tired
  • Retired

• Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Literature

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Jungle

• Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Giving

• Eternities before the first-born day,Or ere the first sun fledged his wings of flame,Calm Night, the everlasting and the same,A brooding mother over chaos lay.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Sun

• I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • School
  • Home
  • Irish

• This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Mother
  • Words
  • Universe

• Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

  

  Jerry Yang

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel