Michael Pollan Quotes
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
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The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.
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The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlement blocs, and others who say we may not be able to hold onto the towns outside the blocs. I have come to tell you what the Arabs already know - that the Land of Israel is one bloc.
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It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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I always root for the defense.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.
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I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. I'm not sure it's even possible.
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We need to do something about the culture of violence.
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I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.
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I could probably stand up and have a press conference and thank 100 guys within that Denver organization, along with all those teammates I played with.
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
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One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.
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The real food is not being advertised.
