Michael Pollan Quotes

Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

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• For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman

• Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • School
  • Driving
  • London

• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Lyrics
  • Solos

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Desire

• Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Women
  • Star
  • Sports

• I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • Together
  • Fear

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Like
  • Movement

• I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Great
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Child

• Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Look
  • Down
  • Canada

• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  

  Jack London
  • Inspiration
  • Club

• All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Night
  • Judge
  • Garden

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Money
  • Possible
  • Bank

• Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • German
  • Italian
  • Ancient

• I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Real
  • Celebrity
  • Page

• Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Time
  • Smart

• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

  O. Henry
  • You
  • Like
  • Rule

• You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Want
  • Career
  • Nice

• I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

  

  Debra Winger
  • Live
  • Real
  • Experience

• I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Habit
  • Shows
  • I Love

• Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

  

  Michael Pollan
  • People
  • Pleasure