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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
Natalia Vodianova -
Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
Warren Farrell
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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 -
The president named Obama is probably not going to repeal the bill that's named after him.
Cory Gardner -
I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.
Alana Stewart -
Oh, what could be more delicious than replacing Chuck Grassley on the Senate Agriculture Committee?
Patty Judge -
As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
Anthony Holden
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I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.
Kem Nunn -
I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.
Jenova Chen -
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Joseph Addison -
They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
Don McLean -
Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.
Laird Barron -
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