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Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

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• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• 'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Blessed
  • My Life

• When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Eternal
  • Fade

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Heart
  • Through
  • Recall

• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Dark
  • Now
  • Physical

• Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Church
  • Late
  • Legal

• It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • American
  • Culture

• And at the time the Republican Congress and a Senate candidate by the name of Mitt Romney - crowd boos No, no, no - Don't boo, vote. Vote! Voting's the best revenge.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Revenge

• Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.

  

  Sam Harris

• Dreams of doing goodFor good-for-nothing people.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • People
  • Good

• Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Great
  • Long
  • Father

• Desperate courage makes One a majority.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Courage

• One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Holiday

• What is needed now is action, not hopelessness

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Action

• Rascals are always sociable - more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Character

• Lots of people were giving me flak when I made the deal to do the very last season of Scrubs for $350,000 an episode. When really I'm the one that's being cheated, because the writer's strike is keeping me from all the money that I could be making. I need to eat, too.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • People
  • Truth
  • Knowing

• No, to produce ideas you don't have to be a saint. And anyway there are very few true intellectuals. The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against every possible rival.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Ideas
  • Educated
  • Saint

• We can't have a third Obama term, which is what electing Hillary Clinton would do.

  

  John Barrasso

• I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Music
  • Character
  • Food

• Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

  

  Vandana Shiva