Michael Pollan Quotes
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.
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My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
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I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.
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Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
