Hartmut Michel Quotes
Because of the low photosynthetic efficiency and the competition of energy plants with food plants for agricultural land, we should not grow plants for biofuel production. The growth of such energy plants will undoubtedly lead to an increase in food prices, which will predominantly hit poorer people.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
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Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn't mean you sign yourself away so they can then tell you what to do. You need to have a plan yourself before they do.
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
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I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
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I was shooting for 'Kahaani' and 'GOW' back to back. I was in a village on work, where a man extended a paper to me. For a minute I thought he wanted another actor's autograph. I looked back and forth, but there was no one. That was quite an experience.
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Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?
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'The Walking Dead' never wants you to get too comfortable with characters and cast members. I think about the time you feel fairly secure with your appreciation of a character is about the time the show will gut-punch you.
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Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.
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When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.
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In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
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I watch TV on my TV pretty exclusively. However, when I'm on that long flight between Los Angeles and New York, a great way to pass that time is to download movies on iTunes and watch them on my laptop.
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As an actor, if you decide that someone is bad... you can't play bad, because even the worst person doesn't think what they're doing is bad.
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Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.
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The world makes you something that you’re not - but you know inside what you are.
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My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.
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You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
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Because of the low photosynthetic efficiency and the competition of energy plants with food plants for agricultural land, we should not grow plants for biofuel production. The growth of such energy plants will undoubtedly lead to an increase in food prices, which will predominantly hit poorer people.
