Paul Stamets Quotes
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
Quotes to Explore
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.
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I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
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In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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Radio is in my blood.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.
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Peter Drucker told me that retirees have not proved to be the fertile source of volunteer effort we once thought they would be. They cut their engines off and lose their edge. Peter believed that if you do not have a second or parallel career in service by age forty-five, and if you are not vigorously involved in it by age fifty-five, it will never happen.
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I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.
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From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
