Michael Pollan Quotes
Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.Michael Pollan
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
Foster Friess -
As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
Vincent Cassel -
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
Adam Mansbach -
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E. M. Forster -
My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
Viktor Vekselberg -
I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
Magic Johnson
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Edmund White -
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Nathan Fillion -
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
J. Paul Getty -
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
Jack Gould -
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
Calvin Trillin -
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
Abraham Lincoln
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
Natalia Vodianova -
Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
J. R. Moehringer -
Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
Warren Farrell -
At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
Bruce Springsteen -
Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
Kiefer Sutherland -
I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.
Deepak Chopra
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The president named Obama is probably not going to repeal the bill that's named after him.
Cory Gardner -
I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Valerie Plame -
Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
Banks -
I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.
Agnes Varda -
Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.
Michael Pollan