Michael Pollan Quotes
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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I don't feel famous.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.
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We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
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I admire Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool - these are the teams that are always there fighting.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.
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The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.
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The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.
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I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
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If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.
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People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.
